Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of its cherished liberal traditions. There were, however, many Britons who were prepared to challenge Maudling on that point last week as a result of his handling of the "Red" Rudi Dutschke case. Shortly after Dutschke was shot in the head by a right-wing assassin in West Berlin nearly three years ago, the fiery radical student leader was granted permission to recuperate in Britain. James Callaghan, then Home Secretary in Harold Wilson's Labor government, imposed one condition-that Dutschke refrain from any political activity. Suffering from partial blindness and frequent epileptic attacks, Dutschke settled in Cambridge...
...secret, and Dutschke was not even informed of the evidence against him. The tribunal held that while Dutschke did not pose "any appreciable threat to national security," he violated his commitment to refrain from political activity by meeting with radicals in Britain and by traveling to Calais and Berlin to confer with like-minded revolutionaries...
...grant a number of immediate concessions to the workers, including a price freeze and an 18% raise in the minimum wage (to a still miserable $33 a month). Gierek has now begun a more complex program and, to reassure his neighbors about his plans, he has visited Moscow, East Berlin and Prague and sent his top aides to Belgrade, Budapest, Bucharest and Sofia...
...officials dismiss the possibility of a Berlin-style airlift for the Cambodian capital. The Communists have not committed the troops needed to pinch off all of its road links at once, but they have hit each often enough to make highway travel risky at best. Northwest of Phnom-Penh on Route 5, rice-laden trucks bound for the city are waylaid fairly frequently. The closing of Route 4 spelled an end to the petroleum supplies that had come by truck from Kompong Som. Some fuel comes up the Mekong by tanker, but not enough to prevent shortages...
...book's most unconvincing passages occur when Sajer, on Berlin leave, falls in love with a little rose-and-cream operetta type named Paula. He is far more credible when he writes of buddies like the huge, permanently hungry Hals: "We discovered a comradeship which I have never found again...