Word: suburb
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Papandreou arrived in Moscow at a time when his relations with the U.S. have deteriorated to the point of public bickering. The bombing of a bar in an Athens suburb two weeks ago, in which more than 30 Americans, many from a nearby military base, were injured, prompted Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger to comment, "This is one of those things you tend to get when all this anti-American sentiment is stirred up." A Greek government spokesman fired back, "It is rather Mr. Weinberger who should be condemned for an anti- Greek campaign." Athens police still do not know...
...back fence. They may not understand each other, may not even like each other much, but somehow they see each other all the time. That kind of attachment has grown up between the Jacksons, a shy, stiff couple who live with their adolescent daughter in the built-up London suburb of Ruislip, and their Canadian-born neighbors, the sunny, boisterous, intrusive Krogers. The families pop into each other's houses, exchange presents, share holidays. So long as they accept each other at face value, the relationship works. But when they stop to examine what they really know about each other...
...Munich suburb of Gauting last week, two members of West Germany's Red Army Faction shot and killed Ernst Zimmermann, 55, chief executive of MTU, a major West German engine manufacturer and well-known defense contractor. Posing as messengers, a young German couple gained entrance to Zimmermann's white stucco home, forced his wife to lie on the floor and took Zimmermann into another room, where they shot him in the head with a revolver. Zimmermann died twelve hours later. It was the second murder by European terrorists in eight days. On Jan. 25, a shadowy French group called Action...
...high-ranking French Defense Ministry official, Rene Audran, 56, had just driven from his office in Paris to his home in the western suburb of Celle- Saint-Cloud late last week. As he pulled up in front of his house, he was ambushed by assassins who pumped six shots into his body before he could escape from his gray Renault. Audran, who headed the ministry department that deals with international arms sales, died instantly...
Nice young men from good families, Chris Boyce and Daulton Lee had known each other since their days as altar boys in a decorous Los Angeles suburb. At 21, Chris, an expert falconer, got a job at TRW, the aerospace and electronics behemoth. Within a few months, after a cursory security check and at a weekly salary of $140, he was helping monitor some of the CIA's most embarrassing top secrets, including dirty tricks directed against Australia's Labor government. By this time Daulton was an important man in his own right, in his own eyes: he had established...