Word: zeitung
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...been allowed to defend himself in what amounted to an "inquisition," as one Vienna newspaper put it. Some publications called for Waldheim's resignation, less out of shame than as a way of ending the diplomatic isolation that threatens to accompany his presidency. Said the Socialist Party daily Arbeiter-Zeitung: "By resigning, Kurt Waldheim could take this weight off all of Austria." Waldheim is not expected to accede to such pressures. For one thing, he has recently picked up invitations to make three state visits -- to Jordan, Egypt and Hungary -- that will finally allow the prisoner of the Vienna Hofburg...
...Waite saga took a more ominous turn, when the West German daily Bild Zeitung reported that according to "Beirut security circles," the British negotiator had been shot and critically wounded while trying to escape. Later the same day, however, two Beirut taxi drivers, both of whom knew Waite by sight, said they were certain they had seen him, surrounded by a band of armed men, walking on a street in a southern Beirut suburb and waving to passersby. Still later ash-Shiraa, the Lebanese newspaper that first broke the story of the secret talks between Iran and the U.S., reported...
...Democrats boast that some 600,000 jobs have been created in the past three years, half of them in 1986. All in all, West Germans appear to be as comfortable and self-satisfied as they have ever been. Says Joachim Fest, co-publisher of the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "For the first time, this land has everything...
...result, Japan can take a more responsible role in the world economic community, commensurate with her strength." The Prime Minister's landslide, said the London Times, was a "sign that Japan is becoming both more outgoing and more accessible." Nakasone, commented the conservative West German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "can be sure that the victory of his party and his personal success will be welcomed in the West...
WEST GERMANY. A headline in the newspaper Bild Zeitung proclaimed ATOM ANGST, while authorities issued conflicting orders. In the state of North Rhine- Westphalia, citizens were urged to keep their children out of sandboxes, to avoid touching the ground with anything but their feet and to protect themselves from rain. Yet in Bavaria officials saw no harm in letting children play in sand as long as they kept it out of their mouths. Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann sought to ease fears like those that caused almost 1,000 anxious TV viewers to call a panel of experts with such questions...