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...high-security Dusseldorf courtroom, Lebanon-born Abbas Hamadei went on trial last week in a proceeding watched closely by Western governments. Hamadei, 29, is charged with kidnaping West Germans Rudolf Cordes and Alfred Schmidt in Beirut a year ago. His alleged aim: to bargain for the release of his brother Mohammed, 23, who is awaiting trial in Frankfurt for the June 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet and the murder of one of its passengers, U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem...
Abbas Hamadei was captured last January at Frankfurt airport. One of his alleged kidnap victims, Schmidt, has since been released as a "goodwill gesture." As for Cordes, on the eve of the trial his keepers released his photograph along with a note urging West German authorities to "consider what happens in the coming days and draw the consequences." Bonn did not blink. Declared Klaus Arend, the presiding judge: "We would lose sight of our duty if we were to succumb to pressure...
...Piano Concerto or the overplayed Violin Concerto of Mendelssohn, why not Rimsky-Korsakov's dashing Piano Concerto or Carl Nielsen's melancholic Violin Concerto? Instead of another Brahms' First Symphony, how about Joachim Raff's spooky "Lenore" Symphony, once greatly admired in the 19th century, or Austrian Composer Franz Schmidt's brooding Fourth Symphony, written...
Geography gave Gorbachev a mighty assist too. Christian Schmidt-Hauer, a West German journalist and biographer, observes that if Gorbachev had been party chief in, say, Murmansk in the far north, he would never have become General Secretary. But in Stavropol Krai, he was on hand to welcome top Moscow officials who came to the local spas at Mineralnye Vody and Kislovodsk for vacations and medical treatment. They found their host unusual in several respects. Says Soviet Historian Roy Medvedev: "A regional party first secretary who was intelligent and congenial would have been considered untypical. If Gorbachev had yelled, sworn...
Although Lazarchick has been home for five weeks now, her ordeal is far from over. Her leg is still immobilized by a cast, and the threat of infection deep within remains. "If the site gets infected, you lose the transplant," Schmidt warns. "It's way too early to tell if there are going to be any complications," says Dr. Steven Gitelis, director of the bone bank at Chicago's Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. The once frozen ligaments and tendons may not properly hold the knee together, and the original cartilage may fail to cushion it from shocks...