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Limited Progress. The mere fact that the Erfurt summit is being held represents a victory for Brandt's Ostpolitik, which aims at overcoming the obstacles that divide Europe. Last week there were also limited signs of progress in West German negotiations in Warsaw and Moscow. In the second round...
A topflight "amateur" like Austria's Karl Schranz, 31, for example, reportedly rakes in close to $50,000 a year. At today's rates, each victory nets him a total bonus of $4,000 from the grateful makers of his skis, boots, bindings, poles and gloves. In addition...
The flow begins with the white-to-purple-flowered opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, an annual plant grown as a cash crop in Turkey, Mexico and the "golden triangle" of Southeast Asia: the northern portions of Burma, Thailand and Laos. The U.S. is putting heavy pressure on Turkey to end legal...
The "molehill," in this case, was a towering wall of snow that had torn loose from Switzerland's 11,532-ft. Gelmihorn just before dawn one day last week and roared into a group of buildings near the village of Reckingen. Some 50 sleeping occupants were buried in a...
A few French students with experience from the previous May helped to build the barricades and organize the fighting. With buildings afire all around, the barricades were thrown together from cars, scaffolding and rubble. Scaffolding poles were lodged in the barricades and wooden stakes driven into the ground in front...