Word: spiegel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inability of a news organ to be sure that it has not been used was cited last week by the West German newsweekly Der Spiegel. The publication withdrew, for a no-cash settlement, a libel suit that it had brought in Britain against the defunct newsweekly Now. The London-based magazine had reprinted in 1981, a few months before it folded, a speech by its owner, Sir James Goldsmith, in which he accused the left-leaning Spiegel of having been manipulated by the KGB while researching a series of 1962 articles that challenged the integrity of Franz Josef Strauss, then...
...months, signs of a power struggle within the government of Syrian President Hafez Assad swirled like so many dust devils around Damascus, the capital. Last week the intrigue blossomed anew. Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas, in an interview published in the West German magazine Der Spiegel, declared that Assad's younger brother Rifaat, one of Syria's three Vice Presidents, is "persona non grata forever." If Rifaat had not gone into exile in Geneva in June, Tlas added, "the army would have struck...
...Ryoichi Naito, the founder of Green Cross, came across an article in Der Spiegel while traveling in West Germany. The article outlined the research on artificial blood done by Dr. Robert Geyer, head of the Nutrition Department at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Naito immediately caught a plane a Boston and dropped in on Dr. Geyer. As the saying goes. "The rest is history...
...Some foreign observers even considered him to be a closet reformer. Word was spread around Moscow and Western capitals that he was really a secret liberal who read trashy American novels and listened to Chubby Checker albums. A rare Andropov interview published in the West German magazine Der Spiegel brought the rumor mill grinding to a halt. Andropov acknowledged that he had traditional tastes. He said that he did not play tennis but did enjoy Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata. But even these sparse revelations about his personal hie were not shared with the Soviet people...
Editor, Der Spiegel...