Word: ladens
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...West German terrorist group, and the French extremist organization Direct Action claiming responsibility for the air-base bombing. More startling, the envelope contained Pimental's green military identification card. The West German authorities now think they may have an explanation for how the terrorists managed to drive their bomb-laden car past the guards at the air base: they might simply have flashed Pimental's ID card. FRANCE A Working Vacation...
Long lines of holiday travelers pushing heavily laden baggage carts were waiting in the main departure lounge of Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport. Hardly anyone paid much attention to four dark-complexioned young men who mingled with the crowd. One wore an expensive gray suit and camel's hair topcoat. Two were in blue jeans and jackets, and had pulled scarves partly over their faces. The fourth sported a green beret. They were not traveling light: they carried 13 hand grenades and four AK-47 automatic rifles...
...Ronald Reagan's original Cabinet appointees still on the job, Block, 50, is a likable West Pointer and Illinois hog farmer who had the misfortune of serving during the worst years for U.S. farming since the Depression. Farm exports dropped nearly 30% and land values eroded, bringing down debt-laden farmers and their creditors. Block leaves with a victory: the 1985 farm bill. While extending the farm subsidies the Administration wanted to cut, the new law nevertheless gives the Agriculture Secretary authority to lower price supports of major crops, making U.S. products more competitive on the world market. Block...
...Japan, West Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada), joined by representatives of the European Community, gather somewhere pleasant for two to three days of talks in the name of greater economic cooperation. They meet often and dine well in private, with time out for photo opportunities. A communiqué laden with truisms is released. Then the luminaries disperse to follow whatever divergent policies they please...
...morph this dramatically, it should be Steve Wynn. After all, Wynn turned a city that was a pit stop for male vice into an international family destination. Expectations that he was going to top his past extravaganzas were so huge that when he started construction on the lush, waterfall-laden, 43-m man-made mountain in front of his new hotel, the rumor in town was that he was building a ski resort on the Strip. But Wynn Las Vegas, which opened in April, exudes an anti-Vegas, almost Buddhist quietude. There's no theme, no showstopper like the volcano...