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...personnel in West Germany since a car bomb injured 20 people at Ramstein Air Base, the Air Force's European headquarters, in 1981. President Reagan was awakened at 6 a.m. and told of the bombing. Later a White House spokesman condemned it as a "shameful act." West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl sent Reagan assurances that quick action would be taken "to cast light on the deed...
...credit card, $3,000 worth of eyeglasses for himself and his family. Zaïrian President Mobutu Sese Seko rented two Amtrak club cars loaded with caviar and champagne to take his entourage of 50 people to Washington and back (cost: $9,800). Outside the U.N., West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had to be snatched from the path of an onrushing New York City police car bringing up the rear of President Reagan's motorcade...
Sometime during his ten-day visit, Reagan will surely have kind words to say about the West European allies' resolve in deploying the new Euromissiles. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have all accepted the NATO weapons on their soil, despite heavy pressure from the peace movement. Allied solidarity has been further strengthened by the near unanimous Western rejection of Gorbachev's recent offer to "freeze" the missile balance in Europe at current levels, which greatly favor the Soviet Union...
...motorcade. There was a cannon salute and a trumpet fanfare, and then a town-hall reception. Everything was golden: the commemorative ring and the specially processed album by the Deep Purple rock group that he received, the distinguished-visitors book he signed. Down the street, at the Helmut Weber bakery, which displays in its windows the scuffed shoes and muddy togs he wore the day of his famous victory, the bakers whipped up thousands of "Bobele" pretzels. They are B-shaped, and their name is an acronym standing for Boris Becker of Leimen. He does not receive any royalty...
WEST GERMANY. For Herbert Giersch, the economy looks "quite satisfactory," especially when compared with the recession year of 1982, when the conservative government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl came to power. Growth this year is loping along at about 2.5% and should reach 3% in 1986. That's a considerable improvement over three years ago, when GNP declined 1%. Inflation is down in the same period, from...