German Friends: Italian foreign minister on UNSC Reform, Iraq, Middle East
Reforming the UN Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has declared war. “The reform of the United Nations is a matter of international interest and will be promoted as such. I hope to have the whole country, parliament, society, and the world of Italian expatriates on my side. The next appointment will be the UN General Assembly in mid-September, but pressure and confrontational acts will continue to be exerted on the group created by Secretary General Kofi Annan. We are even…
German Friends: Irish Independent: Kidnap victim ‘still alive’
AN Irishman kidnapped with two German friends in Iran nearly two weeks ago is probably still alive, authorities said.Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said yesterday armed forces were searching the Sistan-Baluchestan province for two Germans and Irishman Aidan JamesLeahy, who were kidnapped on December 2 near the provincial capital, Zahedan -allegedly by bandits or drug runners. “Based on early information, it seems they areunharmed,” he said, adding Iran…
German Friends: American, 2 W. Germans say they weren’t kidnapped
BEIRUT, Lebanon – An American woman and two West German friends were reported safe Thursday, the day after a previously unknown group claimed to have kidnapped them. Police said they had not been abducted. Police said Deborah Fahrend, 54, of San Francisco, Lebanese-born naturalized West German Mounir Shamseddin Sami, 39, and his 7-year-old son Danjel, born in Berlin, were not kidnapped.”They were together in a hotel in East Beirut,” Ambassador Wolfgang Gottelmann…
German Friends: THERE’RE STILL SOME TRAVEL BARGAINS
A year ago, Stephen Birnbaum surveyed the Brandenburg Gate with German friends who predicted they wouldn’t see the Berlin Wall fall in their lifetime.Last week, he danced with them in celebration of the reunification of Germany.Birnbaum, whose travel advice is a staple of radio, television and newspapers, including The Times-Dispatch on Sunday, says Eastern Europe is the fastest growing tourist destination. His spring trip to Poland, however, was more illuminating than…
German Friends: Treacherous night on Rainier,
Bodies retrieved: 2 Oregon students, German visitor
When 21-year-old Keeta Owens and three German friends set out to ascend Mount Rainier via the treacherous Liberty Ridge route Saturday, they were among 256 climbers on the mountain. The weather was serving up a Northwest mix of rain, snow and clear skies, but forecasts called for conditions to deteriorate. The accuracy of those forecasts had dire consequences early Wednesday morning, when Owens and two of her fellow climbers perished in whiteout conditions high on the 14,411-foot…