Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the West German terrorist group, the Red Army Faction, were natural suspects because the Moro incident was strikingly similar, both in its cold-blooded sophistication and its implementation, to the abduction last September of West German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer. One witness thought she heard a kidnaper speak in German , ''Achtung! Achtung!'' Another bystander was waved off by a terrorist who spoke with what sounded like heavily accented Italian. An additional element was the chilling professional precision exhibited by one of the killers. One bodyguard had managed...
...first they opened primarily to finance trade between their countries and the U.S., or to serve multinational corporations and people who speak the same language as the bank's officers. Some still cater to an ethnic clientele. But, says Ekkehard Bellinger, executive vice president of the Munich-based Bayerische Hypotheken-und Wechsel-Bank, which opened in New York last summer, "once we are here, it is logical for us to generate our own business with clients who have nothing to do with Germany." Moreover, though they will not say so out loud, some foreign bank officers consider American bankers...
Black holes occur when a neutron or another dense star collapses, and causes an area of violent activity in space exerting such strong gravitational forces that no light rays can emerge. This area then "vanishes out of sight, so to speak," Alastair G.W. Cameron, chairman of the Astronomy Department, said yesterday...
...clear: France's uneasy electorate, fed up with squabbling on the left, uncertain of the dimensions of Communist intentions, played safe. "I expected as much," said Giscard coolly, as he watched first-round returns from the presidential Chateau de Rambouillet, 34 miles from Paris, "I didn't speak Saturday night for nothing." He was referring to a persuasive election-eve address on national television. A victory for the deeply divided leftist parties could not ensure a stable government in France, he warned. Moreover, "though the French economy has improved, it is still very fragile. The shock that would...
...delegation at the UN to prepare for this. He now wanted to make quite sure that it was so. He wanted to hear it from me. Kissinger had been told by the Egyptian National Security adviser in Paris early in 1972 that the Soviet Union had no power to speak for Egypt-and this fact was officially transmitted to the United States. Kissinger had therefore been shocked when I conveyed my reply: Please tell Kissinger that this never took place. I haven't agreed to a ceasefire proposed by the Soviet Union or any other party. He should contact...