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Although Kohl himself is a staunch backer of the missiles, he improvised a sentence in his keynote speech to placate younger, skeptical C.D.U. members. "We belong to the peace movement," he declared. "And we want disarmament and detente." Kohl also agreed to let 500 jeans-sporting youths, some not party members, have a voice at the convention...
...rejected entries include such kitsch as a house-high steel helmet and a number of handsomely styled columns, pylons, tablets and structures that belong at a world's fair or amusement park. Oth er designs accommodate the thousands of names on various layouts of slabs, blocks and other geometric stones and look depressingly like constructivist graveyards...
Republican Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick looks and speaks like an aristocrat. She wears designer clothes and expensive pearls and comes from New Jersey's fashionably rich Fifth District, where kids learn fox-hunting instead of touch football. Yet, she doesn't belong to the Nancy Reagan-Betsy Bloomingdale school of patrician politics. She has neither time nor patience for the charity-ball circuit where rich Washingtonians raise money for good causes by paying $1000 to be seen in their Halstons. And when she speaks in that throaty, well-bred voice, she talks passionately about the poor--and her concern for them...
...NATO. Here is a unique problem: we belong to NATO, but this alliance refused to guarantee our frontiers [against Turkish attack]. Turkey has made many claims on operational control of the eastern Aegean, on the continental shelf, on control of air space. Many times Turkish leaders have even hinted that islands of the eastern Aegean are not necessarily Greek. We have to maintain a high level of readiness and modernize our armed forces. This costs us enormously when we should be spending our resources on education, health and development...
...voices. Between the testimonies are pages of ponderous speculations and familiar psychological and political theorizing. "Many of the blacks had never seen anything like it [Portland] before-the mountains, the forests, the river-they had heard of land like this but it always seemed to be something that would belong to white people." The book's one insight is into the character of Bill Walton. He casts an emotional shadow that is even larger than his considerable (6 ft. 11 in.) physical presence. Long misunderstood as a hippie superstar with a low tolerance for pain, Walton emerges here...