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...missiles failed to prevent their deployment this fall. The Greens, however, are quick to took on the bright side of things. "It's not a failure. It is clear that the government acted against the majority of the people, now there is a spirit of resignation," said Dr. Sabine Bard, a Green and member of the Bundestag, on a recent visit to Cambridge. "But at the next national election, people will remember who stood for what," another member noted...
While in Cambridge, Bard also gave the following summary of her party's goals for a demilitarized central Europe...
...Greens don't actually describe themselves as anti-American. "There's a big difference between the American people and the American government. We feel closer to the American people than we do to our own government," said Bard. Nevertheless, it must not be forgotten that almost all German leftists hold contempt for an America they see as incapable of producing leadership with any greater sophistication than Ronald Reagan and his "cowboy mentality...
MORE RECENTLY, the Greens seem to be giving some thought to giving their movement a bit more balance. In Cambridge, Bard said. "The peace movement [in West Germany] is defeated at this point, but we have to go on and get in contact with the unofficial peace movement in the East. We have very good contacts in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. We must work with them and not the governments to get Europe out of these two blocks, to get out of this East-West confrontation...
...attempt to demystify and de-mythify "the Bard" (a phrase that would never escape his lips unless they were twisted satirically), McKellen establishes two reference points between himself and Shakespeare. The first is that they were both helplessly smitten by the theater at tender ages. (He imagines a boyish Shake speare falling in behind a touring theatri cal company announcing its presence by parading down Stratford's main street; he recalls himself manipulating a cardboard Laurence Olivier and Jean Simmons in a toy-theater production of Hamlet.) The second is that both grew...