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Favorite Marc Girardelli, the Austrian-born overall World Cup leader who is skilling for Luxembourg, finished third, and Egon Hirt of West Germany was fourth...
...Luxembourg, protesters swamped the U.S. and Japanese embassies with so many telephone calls that they blocked the lines. In cities as far apart as Bonn, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Christchurch, New Zealand, demonstrators paraded outside the two nations' embassies. In Copenhagen, the harbor statue of the Little Mermaid had a Japanese flag draped at her feet and was blindfolded with an American flag; she was also impaled by a symbolic harpoon. These protests were held around the world last week in the name of peace-peace for the threatened leviathan of the deep, the sperm whale...
...doyen of professional translators, Ralph Manheim, 77, has lived in Paris for 34 years, secure in his grip on the English language, working with equal fluency from the French and the German. In the tiny maid's room that serves as his office, near the Luxembourg Gardens, Manheim has produced inventive English versions of some of Europe's most difficult writers, including Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Günter Grass. Manheim's most recent endeavor: a canny rendering of The Weight of the World, an elliptical memoir by Austrian Playwright Peter Handke...
...after inflation. If that commitment, which was made to President Carter in 1978, was not met, the NATO allies risked a reduction in the 326,414 U.S. troops defending Western Europe. A Pentagon report released last week concluded that, of the 16 NATO countries, only the U.S., Canada and Luxembourg had consistently met the 3% goal since 1980. NATO's conventional forces, Nunn argued, currently serve as "little more than a delayed trip wire for early resort to nuclear escalation," because they could do little to halt a Soviet invasion without tactical nuclear weapons...
...found the most interesting part was trying to perfect the prose. I would spend hours on it every night--what an ego trip to begin writing and have all these people take an interest," says Jeffrey M. Rosen '86, who spent last summer canvassing France, Belgium, and Luxembourg...