Word: wiesbaden
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...said Jacobsen appeared in good health but would be taken to the U.S. military hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, for an extensive medical examination...
...Navratilova came to the U.S. to stay in 1975, becoming a citizen six years later. She resents the all-Czech talk. "Come on, I'm an American," she huffs, entirely correctly. "You can't go on where we were born. If you do that, McEnroe (who was born in Wiesbaden) is German...
...composer's grandson Wieland emphasized the influence of Greek drama on Wagner's aesthetics. French Director Patrice Chereau detected a 19th century Marxist dialectic at work with his controversial 1976 Bayreuth staging, while Set Designer Pet Halmen and Director Nicolas Joel used aspects of Kabuki drama in their recent Wiesbaden production...
Born Simone Kaminker in Wiesbaden, Germany, where her father was an officer in the post-World War I French occupation force, she grew up in the affluent Paris suburb of Neuilly. When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, her father, a Jew, fled to Britain to join Charles de Gaulle's Free French army. Simone remained in France with her family, adopting her mother's maiden name --Signoret--to escape detection by the Nazis, and worked as a secretary for the Paris daily Les Nouveaux Temps...
...fact that Testrake acted as the spokesman reflected the shift in attitude. On the plane from Wiesbaden, West Germany, Allyn Conwell, who had resigned as the group's spokesman, asked Testrake to replace him. A cool, articulate, square-jawed Texan, Conwell had alienated some by expressing "genuine sympathy" for the captors and equating the hostage taking with Israel's detention of hundreds of Shi'ites. Hill, for one, declared that Conwell had been "sucked in." Said an outraged Hill: "I asked him if he was going to carry the Koran and Islamic prayer beads with him to the White House...