Word: rolf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spring 1984: Rolf Kiefer, owner of a small metal-construction firm in Wiesbaden, West Germany, receives a request to bid on the construction of a technology park in North Africa. The man soliciting the bids calls it a "big contract." Kiefer is intrigued, but as he says later, "when someone comes in with a suitcase full of money, you feel wary." When Kiefer learns that the "park" is to be built in Libya, he bows out. "I assumed from the outset that the man was talking about a weapons factory," recalls Kiefer, "and we didn't want to get involved...
...through her friendships with Naranjo and with Rolf Carle, an Austrian photojournalist, that Eva becomes involved in a guerrilla uprising. And it is Carle who further convinces Eva to use her skills as a storyteller to expose the government's corruption...
...Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested Rolf Nygren, 47, and Jasvir $ Singh, 36, as they returned a rental car in Halifax. Meanwhile, a Canadian Forces patrol boat, alerted by a Coast Guard spotter plane, overtook and stopped the 497-ton Amelie, a Chilean-registered ship flying the Costa Rican flag that had secretly left the Dutch port of Rotterdam in late June. Canadian authorities were uncertain whether the immigrants, who paid from $1,200 to $2,500 in Canadian funds for the trip, boarded the ship in the Dutch port or were picked up en route. What they did learn...
...Dear Rolf: We heard about Chernobyl, and we certainly hope you and your family are all right. I'm sure you'll understand why we won't be dropping in to see you in Stockholm next month after all. With those crazy hijackers, airport bombers and high prices, we're staying home this year. Besides, Europe may be exciting, but Yosemite in the moonlight can be pretty appealing...
...number four singles, Harvard's Darryl Laddin fell to Princeton's Rolf Harrison in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2 to give the Tigers a 2-1 advantage in games...