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DIED. HANNELORE KOHL, 68, loyal wife of 41 years to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; by suicide; in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Since 1993 she had endured a painful and untreatable allergy to sunlight, triggered by a severe reaction to a penicillin treatment. The photoallergy, which caused hivelike rashes and fever, forced Kohl to remain indoors every day until dark. During the past 15 months her debilitating condition had worsened and left her totally homebound and dependent on painkillers...
...favorite Pavel Nedved. DIED. MORDECAI RICHLER, 70, author and screenwriter; in Montreal. Among his many achievements, the caustic Canadian had been twice short-listed for the Booker Prize and appointed to the Order of Canada. See Eulogy. DIED. HANNELORE KOHL, 68, wife of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Her elegant life as the Chancellor's wife?she was also an accomplished cook and linguist?was afflicted by a devastating allergy to sunlight. She committed suicide. ARRESTED, ALFREDO ASTIZ, 50, in Buenos Aires. The "Blond Angel of Death" participated in the torture and murder of thousands of Argentinians...
...down the road screaming in pain, the victim of a misplaced napalm strike by the South Vietnamese air force. The 1972 picture of nine-year-old Kim Phuc (page 26) became a symbol for all the innocent victims of Viet Nam. Last summer, at 21, Kim Phuc traveled to Ludwigshafen, West Germany, for skin grafts on her neck and arms. Back in * Viet Nam she studies at Ho Chi Minh University, but she is still said to be in pain and often too sick to attend classes...
...Ludwigshafen, Germany, July 28,1948. A railway car transporting dimethylether, used in making acetic acid and dimethylsulfate, to the I.G. Farben chemical plant, exploded inside the factory gates. The blast and resulting fire killed 207 people and injured...
...chances are good that he will remain a provincial at heart. Kohl still prefers his cluttered office in Mainz to the C.D.U. 's marble music, in the German capital. A devotee of jazz and classical music, the master of a world-class wine cellar in his home outside Ludwigshafen, he also admits a fondness for television westerns and pizza. Recalling their eleven-year courtship, his wife Hannelore says, "I got three to four letters a week from him, amounting to over 2,000. He does not commit himself easily. But when he does, you can depend...