Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business even more unpredictable is the heavy dependence on Government contracts. Flying Tiger's first big business came when it landed a six-month Government contract for hauls to Ja pan in 1946; later it profited in a major way from airlift business during the 1948-49 Berlin crisis and the Korean War. Today military airlift contracts, generated in large part by the Viet Nam war, account for nearly 60% of all Flying Tiger revenue...
...Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series: Wolfram Fischer, professor of economics and social history, Free University of West Berlin, on "Germany and the Great Depression." Emerson Hall...
...fatal shooting of Student Benno Ohnesorg, 26, during the anti-Shah rioting. His death by a police bullet has elevated him to martyrdom; the New Left now talks of him the way angry West Germans talked of Peter Fechter, who was killed by East German border guards at the Berlin Wall five years ago. West Berlin's police chief (since furloughed) hardly helped matters when he called the anti-Shah crowd "a liverwurst . . . You press it in the middle to squeeze it out at the end." To the distress of the student leaders, Brandt refused to condemn the club...
Ideological capital of the rebel students is West Berlin's sprawling Free University (enrollment: 15,000), founded in 1948 with American support. In contrast to most tradition-bound German campuses, it has been a model of relaxed student-faculty relations and loose campus rules. Among the many student organizations, the most articulate political voice belongs to the Socialist German Student League. There is also a clutch of small, far-out radical cliques, such as the Maoist "Kommune I," in which men and women share worldly goods and sexual favors...
...unrest shows no sign of abating. Last week 180 Free University students staged a 45-hour hunger strike and talkin at a West Berlin Protestant Student Center to demand the release of a jailed anti-Shah demonstrator. Whether they achieved their goal seemed almost beside the point; the act of protest itself was the crucial issue...