Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past decade, West Germany has become Europe's biggest market for illegal heroin, and an alarming number of the estimated 50,000 hard-drug users are still in their teens. By the time the real Christiane F. was approached by two reporters from the West German weekly Stern, she had successfully shaken her heroin habit, but the story she told them of drug abuse among young people shocked a nation ignorant of the dimensions of the problem. A book based on her Stern disclosures became an instant bestseller in 1979 and has sold 1.3 million copies so far. What...
...wall." The country's catastrophic economic condition, he said, required new belt-tightening measures, including rationing of cereals and a freeze on salaries. Economic difficulties, he said, also made it impossible to fulfill all the agreements extracted from the government through repeated industrial confrontations. He concluded with a stern warning that "a sharp collision might mean death now." The 460-member parliament quickly approved the strike ban with no opposition and only four abstentions...
...That stern admonition-and the linkage between intervention and disarmament talks-had been engineered largely by U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who was making his first trip abroad since taking office. Weinberger had begun to sound invasion alarms the previous week after receiving intelligence reports of heightened Soviet military activity in and near Poland. During a stop-over in Britain last week, Weinberger told reporters at Cottesmore Royal Air Force Base that Poland was already a victim of "invasion by osmosis," a process he described as the "gradual filtering in of additions to the two [Soviet] divisions that have been...
Frozen in bronze, the black infantrymen trudge forever forward, their rifles scraping the metaled sky. On horseback alongside them, stern, proud, aristocratic, rides their young colonel, Robert Gould Shaw. Here, just across from the gold-domed statehouse, Shaw led the North's first black regiment down Beacon Street and off to war. "The very flower of grace and chivalry," John Greenleaf Whittier wrote of Shaw's departure, "he seemed to me beautiful and awful, as an angel of God come down to lead the host of freedom to victory...
...Secretary of State's stern talk about the Soviet Union sounded like the cooing of a turtledove compared with comments from National Security Council Senior Staffer Richard Pipes. In a briefing last week with a Reuters reporter, the hawkish Harvard professor explained his theory that mounting economic problems would either force Moscow to make domestic reforms or provoke it into dangerous foreign adventurism. Reuters simplified this by quoting him as saying that Soviet leaders would have to choose between changing their Communist system in the direction followed by the West or "going to war." Pipes also was reported...