Word: zeitung
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...previous Sunday in local elections in the city-state of Hamburg. It was the last test of strength before the national elections Kohl plans to hold on March 6 in hopes of winning a mandate for his three-month-old conservative coalition government. Said the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "The result is both a disappointment and a warning. The election will not be as easy as many imagined...
...million in pipeline contracts with the Soviet Union, should honor their commitments. That resolve hardened when the Reagan Administration last month announced its decision to sell the Soviet Union 23 million tons of wheat, or 15 million more than last year's allotment. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, usually pro-U.S. in its views, curtly dismissed the grain deal as a ploy "to win the votes of American farmers" in last week's midterm U.S. elections...
...could not pay its bills. The unpaid debts amounted to $3.5 billion. In addition to being the largest corporate casualty in West Germany since 1945, the collapse of AEG-Telefunken symbolized the problems now facing the country that first gave birth to economic miracles. As the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung candidly observed in a front-page obituary for the company: "This marks the end of all illusions...
...With his impressive command of German language, history and culture, he will be well placed to promote the Soviet Union's image as a peace-loving nation to West German missile opponents through the press and television. But Kvitsinsky is no Germanophile. Noted the liberal Süddeutsche Zeitung:"He knows the Germans particularly well, and likes them particularly little...
...clearly seemed to be linked to the huge anti-American demonstration two days earlier in West Berlin that protested the visit of Secretary of State Alexander Haig. "The growth of anti-American rhetoric here is an irreversible invitation to further action of this kind," commented the prestigious Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, which predicted that terrorist acts would continue. Indeed, one day after Kroesen's escape, two explosive devices were found on a rail spur leading to the U.S. Rhein-Main Air Base near Frankfurt. Said a police officer: "They would have blown up a train if it had passed...