Word: germane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems or benefits created by foreign investment in U.S. agriculture, capital gains tax avoidance on the part of foreign investors is no small matter. As a matter of equity, it is difficult for American farmers to pay a capital gains tax when they sell land, while their German or Japanese neighbors pay no tax at all. Moreover, the avoidance of capital gains taxes gives the alien purchaser an up-front advantage of around 25% on initial investment. With no capital gains tax, there is no deterrent to speculation in U.S. land...
...Chevrolet station wagon carrying five Palestinians drove slowly down the Rue Verdun in west Beirut. As it passed a parked Volkswagen, a huge plastique bomb turned the street into a violent shambles of smoke and flames. The occupants of the station wagon were mortally wounded; four passersby, including a German nun and an English student, were killed, and 18 others were injured...
...scene could have been an outtake from The Spy Who Came In from the Cold or Funeral in Berlin: a young East German defector huddling with his wife and their small child in the gloom of a nearly deserted S-Bahn platform in East Berlin, waiting nervously through an early evening snow squall for the elevated train that will carry them to safety in West Berlin. The defector was Werner Stiller, 31, a lieutenant in East Germany's dreaded secret police and espionage agency. Miller had been working as a spy for West Germany. Now, following orders from Bonn...
Stiller's secret-police credentials had cleared him through an inspection by East German guards at the platform gate. Ten minutes after the train arrived, Stiller and his family got off at the Zoological Garden station, the first main stop in West Berlin. From there, waiting West German agents rushed them to Tempelhof Airport. An American military jet flew the three Frankfurt, where West German intelligence agents installed them in a safe house...
Gunter Fuhrmann, West German deputy consul, responded to the group's arguments by presenting opposing views, but he declined to take a clear stand on the issue of repeal, according to the HJLSA...