Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly before How I Won the War opened in Germany, Director Richard Lester attended preview screenings before student audiences in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. Afterward, he debated the film on the stage with politicians and writers. The results, he remembers, were sometimes quite startling. "One politician began shouting that 'the film is an insult to my English comrades in arms who fought bravely against us, at which point the students in the audience began chanting 'Sieg Heil!' in unison." Such outbursts were the sweet sounds of success for Lester. "Getting these points of view...
...Berlin stated that the Massachusetts ACLU would serve as defense counsel if a local student should be inducted under this new policy. The chances of a court victory for the student would be very good, he added...
Gerald A. Berlin, president of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, remarked yesterday that to induct demonstrators is "clearly to use the selective service process as a form of punishment." Berlin deplored what he called Hershey's recommendation that the draft boards "take justice into their own hands...
Died. Wladyslaw Tykocinski, 46, top-ranking Polish diplomat who defected to the West in 1965; of an apparent heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Finding "only a cynical exploitation of human opportunism and fear" in Poland, Tykocinski turned himself in to a U.S. Army sergeant in West Berlin, quitting his strategic post as head of the Polish Military Mission in West Berlin. Stung by his defection, a military tribunal in Warsaw last year tried him in absentia and sentenced him to death...
...helped reopen the American embassy in Moscow, stayed on through the savage purges that soon followed and thus received, as he writes, "a liberal education in the horrors of Stalinism." He arrived in Prague on Sept. 29, 1938, the day of the Munich Conference. He was in Berlin from 1939 until Pearl Harbor, when the Nazis interned him and 130 other Americans for 51 dreary months near Frankfurt. (After his release, Kennan recalls sarcastically, he was told that "none of us were to be paid for the months we had been in confinement: we had not, you see, been working...