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...prosperous seaport of Hamburg, some 60,000 young demonstrators, many with their faces painted a ghostly white, marched through the broad streets ten to 15 abreast. They carried signs reading ROCKETS OUT and PEACE WITHOUT WEAPONS. In the same city, just 24 hours earlier, West German Defense Minister Hans Apel was jeered into silence by a congress of devout Lutheran evangelicals, as he tried to explain his government's nuclear defense stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Crisis of Confidence | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...NATO alliance. That military machine faces an enduring dilemma: it has to be strong enough for the defense of Central Europe, but never so strong as to provoke the Soviet Union's obsessive fear of a renascent, militaristic West Germany. "We must be cautious," says Defense Minister Hans Apel. "Neither in Eastern nor Western Europe can we create the impression that we are longing for a special military position. On the other hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leading from Strength | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...when the economy seemed headed for a real slump, Schmidt and Finance Minister Hans Apel took the brakes off credit and then at the end of the year shifted into a full reflation program. If their projected Aufschwung (upswing) does come this fall-and especially if now returning consumer confidence puts some of the nation's huge personal savings back into circulation-the revival of the giant West German economy will give all Western Europe a big boost toward recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: A Vote for the Upswing | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

...ALMOST time now for a critical reappraisal of Gilbert and Sullivan. Willi Apel has referred to their work as "the highest point attained in English dramatic music since Purcell," but this judgement can certainly not have been meant to apply to all of their works uniformly. What may be true of Iolanthe is not true of Yeomen, what may be true of Trial by Jury is not necessarily true of the Sorcerer. The determination to run through the G & S repertoire over and over agiin, the way Channel 56 runs through Basil Rathbone's 11 Sherlock Holmes films...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Yeomen of the Guard | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...were not tied so tightly to Russia, which continues to extract favorable deals from its satellite. Ulbricht in 1965 committed 45% of the country's exports for the following five years to the Soviet Union at ridiculously low prices-an act that caused East German Planning Chief Erich Apel to commit suicide on the day the deal was announced. As a result, East Germany is forced to ship eastward many of the machines that it needs to modernize its own factories and many of the exports that it needs to increase trade with the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: The Unpleasant Reality | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

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