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Bruised Image. In West Germany, the Munich murders could be politically damaging to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. One object of the Olympic summer in Bavaria had been to demonstrate the contrast between the Nazi Germany of 1936-the last time the Games were held there-and the prosperous, benign Germany of today. That image was now dashed, however unfairly, by the brutal murder of eleven Israelis. Brandt could become the victim of West Germans' disappointment when elections take place, probably in December. Brandt last week speedily called for a "ruthless" inquiry and frank presentation of facts...
...seems a benign sort of place to be involved in bitter racial controversy. On a cold Sunday night in December 1968, six ranking members of the state house of representatives, just half a block down State Street, had dropped by for something to eat. The group included Jewish, Irish, Italian and Russian-American legislators and one black. House Majority Leader K. Leroy Irvis. "We were a real United Nations group," recalls Representative Harry A. Englehart Jr., a Moose from western Pennsylvania, who had suggested that they dine at the lodge since most restaurants in town were closed...
...cultures, Munich has always been chiefly absorbed with the manufacture and enjoyment of Bavarian Gemütlichkeit (some of which is identified by its sudsy head). It's all very apparent today, this spirit of "leben und leben lassen"-a cheery apathy and beery tolerance combined with a benign condescension toward anything German that is not also old Bavarian. The ambience of the cities to the north-those pompous Prussians-can be described in straight lines and right angles. Munich gives you embroidered corners and fanciful curlicues...
...abruptly shucked its year-old policy of "benign neglect" of American currency abroad last week. It did so by permitting the Federal Reserve Board to go into the international money market to help raise the value of the dollar, and by serving notice that it would bolster its currency against further devaluation. This complex maneuver signaled a timely break with former Treasury Secretary John Connally's hard line of economic nationalism and a step by the U.S. toward greater cooperation with its trading partners in seeking to ease world money problems...
...complex, but overall they seem too timid in requiring university action, and too prone to escape clauses when they do. They forbid both buying stock in a company just to make trouble, and secondary action against already-owned companies financially involved with socially injurious firms (part of a generally benign view of U.S. corporations and the interplay between them). They forbid universities generally to initiate proxy actions, even when they would be permitted to support those initiated by others. They forbid cooperative action by universities owning stock in the same company. Meanwhile, they allow a university to refrain from action...