Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last month one of the defendants, Holger Meins, a West Berlin film student, died as a result of his hunger strike...
Next day, apparently in retaliation, two gunmen went to the home of the president of the West Berlin Supreme Court, Gunter von Drenkmann, and shot him down when he opened the door. A bomb went off (harmlessly) in the garden of another judge in Hamburg, and eight firebombings occurred in Gottingen. So far, there have been no arrests...
...trial itself proceeded under the tightest security precautions in West Berlin's history. As 200 policemen guarded the courthouse against student demonstrators, security men with machine guns and Alsatian dogs patrolled the corridors. The defendants themselves sat in bullet-proof-glass enclosures-popping up occasionally to denounce the authorities as "swine" and "fascists." After Ulrike Meinhof took the witness stand and praised the freeing of Baader as "an outstanding example of urban guerrilla activity," few expected an acquittal...
Gerald A. Berlin, a Boston attorney and long-time summer resident of Martha's Vineyard, said yesterday that he knew two individuals personally and had heard of a third, all of whom had made better offers than Land-Vest. "I'm curious as all mischief to find out what Harvard is up to," Berlin said...
This show has brought together prints from Boston, Madrid, Paris, Berlin and London to form the most comprehensive Goya show ever seen in America. It is impressive just to see the Disparates and the Desastres de la Guerra in Goya's working proofs, for these two series were published after his death, and the formal prints have been altered from what Goya meant them to be. But to have these juxtaposed with the Caprichos, and to see how Goya changed his images of human folly over 19 years is an unforgettable experience...