Word: josef
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year, especially on restaurant meals and hotel rooms in the luxury class. However, the 30% rise in the value of the dollar since 1980 more than offsets such increases. A pleasant middle-class hotel like Munich's Bundesbahn Hotel charges about $55 for a double. Says Josef Dureck of the German Tourist Board: "Far from being hard to afford as it was three years ago, for the American tourist Germany now appears to have turned into the bargain it was a decade ago." Indeed, Americans (the second biggest national contingent after the Dutch) are Germany's biggest...
...volume is devoted to Hitler's account of the 1941 secret mission by his deputy Rudolf Hess to Britain to try to persuade the British to sign a peace agreement. Other entries deal with the 1940 British retreat at Dunkirk and the amorous activities of Chief Propagandist Josef Goebbels...
...church has tried to stay out of the fray. Celebrating an open-air Mass for 20,000 people who had gathered to mark the arrival in Warsaw of the Black Madonna, Poland's most revered religious painting, Roman Catholic Primate Josef Cardinal Glemp told the hushed crowd, "This will be a decisive year for Poland, a year that will define the direction of her development." Glemp carefully avoided any reference to the May 1 protest. But later in the day, before another Mass in the port city of Gdansk, the Polish Cardinal spent about half an hour talking with...
...eight Christian Democrats, five Christian Socialists and three Free Democrats. There were only two new faces: Christian Democrat Heinrich Windelen (Inter-German Affairs) and Christian Socialist Ignaz Kiechle (Agriculture). Most significantly, Free Democrat Leader Hans-Dietrich Genscher stayed on as Foreign Minister. A man who coveted that job-Franz-Josef Strauss, the right-wing leader of the Christian Democrats' sister party in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union-thus remained without a portfolio in the national government...
Kohl intends to re-establish the coalition government that he created nearly six months ago, after the Free Democrats fled their partnership with Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Kohl's first order of business last week was to rebuff Franz Josef Strauss, 67, the brilliant but abrasively ambitious leader of Kohl's Bavarian-based sister party. In a "harmonious" 90-minute meeting at the Christian Democratic headquarters in Bonn, Strauss appeared to expect that the Free Democrats would be shunted aside in the coalition hierarchy and that he, and not Genscher, would be granted the dual posts...