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...most chilling news of the week was evidence that Iraq had once again used chemical weapons against its enemy. Physicians in London, Vienna, Munich and other West European cities confirmed that about 50 Iranian soldiers flown to their medical centers for treatment had been exposed to mustard gas. In Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz bluntly informed Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz of U.S. objections to the use of chemical weapons, noting that Iraq is a signatory of the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which prohibits them...
...editorial vigorously rejected a 1984 German book, Unity of the Churches --Real Possibility, co-authored by the late Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner and Father Heinrich Fries of the University of Munich. The attack was signed by French Dominican Daniel Ols, who teaches at the Pontifical Angelicum University in Rome. Such an editorial does not carry the weight of a Vatican pronouncement, but Ols says that he was asked to write his piece "by the hierarchy," which would mean by key aides of the Pope or even by John Paul himself...
...Munich suburb of Gauting last week, two members of West Germany's Red Army Faction shot and killed Ernst Zimmermann, 55, chief executive of MTU, a major West German engine manufacturer and well-known defense contractor. Posing as messengers, a young German couple gained entrance to Zimmermann's white stucco home, forced his wife to lie on the floor and took Zimmermann into another room, where they shot him in the head with a revolver. Zimmermann died twelve hours later. It was the second murder by European terrorists in eight days. On Jan. 25, a shadowy French group called Action...
...Make, movement, rarity," says Los Angeles Lawyer Jack Quinn. "That's what the serious collector looks for." Muses Hans Rohrer, a computer manager in Munich: "These pieces are reverse time machines. They exude a flavor--even a musty smell--of yesterday, a bit of immortality." Rohrer keeps all his yesterdays in a drawer at home. Quinn keeps the family immortality collection snug in a bank vault, although his journalist wife Joan has been known to wear several pieces of it, simultaneously, on her wrist...
...four could either be used in tandem, creating the equivalent of a gigantic 590-in. mirror, or separately. Overseas, Japanese astronomers also have their eyes on Mauna Kea; they hope to build a 295-in. telescope on the volcano by the 1990s. The European Southern Observatory, headquartered in Munich, is considering an array of four 315-in. telescopes that could, like the N.O.A.O. instrument, act in concert...