Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Professor Jurgen Zerche was lecturing on political science one day this spring when a band of some 70 young leftists barged into his classroom at the Free University of Berlin and began shouting curses at him. His offense: he had criticized the appointment of a Trotskyite professor. The students warned him that unless he recanted they would hold him prisoner until he starved to death. Zerche escaped by jumping out of a window...
Fading Ideals. The conflict is particularly ironic because the Free University was originally organized with U.S. backing in 1948 as a democratic counterpart to the once great Humboldt University, which had fallen under Communist domination when Berlin was divided after World War II. Massively supported by the Ford Foundation, the Free University was to be a "community of teachers and learners." Its standards were high, its equipment excellent, its faculty idealistic. It also broke with German tradition by allowing a student council to take part in its administration...
...Hunter would not be welcome at the Games because "an Olympic athlete should be an example to youth." The U.S. Olympic Committee "would be wise" not to send the 21-year-old boxer, advised Daume, a successful industrialist who played basketball for Germany at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. If Hunter did turn up, Daume added, he might run afoul of an Olympic rule on housing. Implying that Hunter might need to be billeted in a local prison, Daume noted a requirement of the Games that competitors stay in the official Olympic Village...
...historic Big Four agreement signed two weeks ago in West Berlin guarantees the unimpeded flow of goods and travelers between the former German capital and West Germany, 110 miles away. TIME'S Kenneth Danforth was one of the first motorists to test the new arrangements. He found...
...trouble is that no one really knows for certain. Jets cover the world so swiftly that guerrillas can gather together almost anywhere on short notice. Paris, Prague, East Berlin and Algiers, along with Beirut, are said to be favorite cities. Another handicap as far as police are concerned is that most of the groups are small and the members know one another. Infiltration, as a result, is almost impossible...