Word: zeitung
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...most Germans seem to see it, bureaucratization is already so pervasive that the new system could not be any worse. "We are already overnumbered," wrote Munich's respectable Stüddeutsche Zeitung, "and who would have objections to a simplification of the system?" As it is, anyone moving from one city to another in West Germany must fill out an 18-inch-long questionnaire, in triplicate, first to deregister and then again to reregister...
...constant tardiness of Senator Edward Kennedy and his wife during a semiofficial visit last April. Together and separately, the two Kennedys observed only one rule-to be late, sometimes by one or two hours, for every engagement. "The honorable Senator," observed a columnist in the Frankfurter Allgemeinc Zeitung, all of his umlauts drawn into an angry frown, "came, saw, and did not conquer." The Kennedys are not the only public figures who could use a personal timekeeper; so could Senator Hubert Humphrey and Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger. Actress Marilyn Monroe was notorious for never showing up for any appointment...
...Rhine-Westphalia, Teddy was 90 minutes late and Joan didn't show at all. And on the night of the concert, Teddy turned up 45 minutes late at the table where Foreign Minister Scheel and Ambassador Rush were waiting for him. The German press took note. The Silddeutsche Zeitung referred to the Kennedys' "lack of feeling for time and protocol." Wrote influential Columnist Walter Henkels in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "A subtle wall of estrangement and aloofness seemed to have arisen between Senator Edward Kennedy and his wife Joan on the one hand, and the Bonn people...
...wallet and passport and zipped off into the car with them. Police promptly recovered Strauss's property, thanks to a cab driver who took down the license number, but bullnecked, pugnacious Strauss went home to a ribbing from the German press. Asked Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Will the Bavarian peasants still understand a Strauss who was robbed by a woman's hand...
Other European voices, mindful of the dubious value of nonaggression pacts and the tragic history of earlier German-Soviet diplomatic cooperation, raised warnings. "The haste on both sides," wrote Neue Zurcher Zeitung. "poses the question "Who plucked the rose before it bloomed?' Is it a success of West Germany's Ostpolitik or Soviet WestpolitikT' London's Economist pointed out that while the Russians talk peace in Europe, they are extending their sphere of influence in Asia, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and the South Atlantic. "This is not the behavior of a country looking...