Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspected of being antiArmy were subjected to a wide variety of snooping, including surreptitious photography of members of radical groups, opening of private mail, tapping of telephones belonging to Germans friendly to American radicals, and "monitoring" of the activities of an organization called "Democrats for McGovern," located in West Berlin. The information, gathered by aides of Watergate Committee Member Senator Lowell P. Weicker during an independent investigation of the Nixon Administration's national-security activities, has been turned over to Watergate Committee Chairman Sam Ervin's Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights and to the Senate Armed Services Committee...
...East and West have moved toward détente, the symbols of the cold war have gradually disappeared. So have the cold warriors. The last of them was Walter Ulbricht, who died last week of heart failure at age 80 near East Berlin, from where he had ruled East Germany for a quarter-century. So ruthless was he in keeping the 17 million East Germans firmly in the Soviet camp that he was probably the most hated Communist Party leader in the world...
...serious threat to his power. It came in mid-1953 when East Germans grew resentful because of food shortages and police repression that had filled the jails with political prisoners. Instead of relaxing his grip, however, Ulbricht increased working quotas by 10%-and touched off a rebellion. East Berlin's workers took to the streets for two days, shouting "Death to Ulbricht!" Only the intervention of Soviet tanks saved him. From that time on, the presence of at least 20 Russian divisions became a crucial prop of his regime...
Tourists sightseeing among the shops and cafés on West Berlin's festive Kurfurstendamm were startled last week at the spectacle of a distinguished, middle-aged man with yellow paint splattered over his head and onto the shoulders of his blue blazer. He was walking back and forth carrying a large hand-lettered sign that read: TU [Technical University] PROFESSOR-UNPOPULAR WITH THE COMMUNISTS
...fate of Folkmar Koenigs, 57, professor of economic law, was new proof of the disruptive power of radical university students in West Berlin (TIME, July 3, 1972). To combat the radicals' threats and demonstrations, Koenigs joined in forming a faculty group called the Emergency Association for a Free University, known as NOFU. Last spring the Communist Students League staged a public "trial" of the NOFU professors and condemned them as Denunzianten, the term that used to be applied to Gestapo informers. Koenigs went to court and obtained a judicial order banning the use of the epithet on student posters...