Word: zeitung
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...newspaper accounts of the power failure emphasized the disorders. Sample headline from the Los Angeles Times: CITY'S PRIDE IN ITSELF GOES DIM IN THE BLACKOUT. Newspapers abroad also focused on the looting. A headline from Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun: PANIC GRIPS NEW YORK; from West Germany's Bild Zeitung: NEW YORK'S BLOODIEST NIGHT; from London's Daily Express: THE NAKED CITY...
Bonn, too, professed amazement and "regret"-even though officials could barely conceal their relief. Editorialized Hamburg's Bild Zeitung: "France lies weak, cowardly and humbled on its knees. The worst of it is, nobody knows whether any other European country, West Germany included, might not have done the same." Even pro-government French newspapers condemned Abu Daoud's release. "When acts so cruelly belie words, we are no longer in the political realm," said Le Figaro...
...last week's debates, asserting that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe," eyebrows shot up throughout Western Europe. A small group of Britons, watching a tape of the debates in London, guffawed at the remark, not believing their ears. West Germany's respected Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung commented that such a statement "cannot but make our hair stand...
...exaggerated image as a vast conspiracy. Reaction abroad ranged from incredulity to dismay. The London Times called the revelations "a bitter draught" for those who regard the U.S. as "sometimes clumsy, often misunderstood, but fundamentally honorable in its conduct of international affairs." West Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung predicted that "the disconcerting naiveté with which President Ford enunciated his secret service philosophy" would have a "provocative" effect...
...Total Football." In West Germany, where the matches are being played in nine cities, sports pages-and front pages-have carried a flood of words describing the action both on the field and off. A banner headline in Bild Zeitung, the nation's largest paper, reported that a German soccer star had shaved off his mustache. A nervous West German government has spent millions of marks to prevent terrorists from seizing the Cup as their latest forum for guerrilla attacks...