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...West Germany's TV networks quietly adopted an Ostpolitik of their own. As the newscast for the first time switched from black and white to color, the networks introduced a new weather map that reflected the changing political climate. Instead of a dark gray Germany reaching from the Rhine to include a part of today's Poland, and even into the U.S.S.R., the new map revealed a brown-and-green Europe that contained the names of major cities but no political boundaries at all. The Poles were relieved. "West German television," reported the Polish News Agency, "has given...
Pollution respects no political bound aries. The Rhine flows 821 miles past the potash mines of Alsace, through the industrial Ruhr Valley to the North Sea. Known as "Europe's sewer," the river is so toxic that even hardy eels have difficulty surviving. The Dutch, who live at the river's mouth, have a stoic slogan: "Holland is the rubbish bin of the world." In Sweden, when black snow fell on the province of Sma-land, authorities suspected that thick soot had wafted from across...
...Insecticide kills some 40 million fish in the Rhine River...
...front. His panzers would entrap as many as 30 U.S. and British divisions, capture the strategic supply port of Antwerp, and perhaps end the war in the West with a negotiated peace. Hitler thought of it as another Dunkirk and code-named it "Wacht am Rhein [Watch on the Rhine]." Allied archives would later refer to "the Battle of the Ardennes." To men who were there when the offensive began 25 years ago this week, it was "the breakthrough" or "the Battle of the Bulge"-and a time of sheer nightmare...
...booted backwoods supporters swarmed into the White House for Old Hickory's Inaugural Day reception. Celebrating his election last week as West Germany's first postwar Socialist Chancellor, Willy Brandt invited all comers to his official villa on Bonn's exclusive Venusberg, overlooking the Rhine...