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Western Europeans were less concerned with the substance of Reagan's proposal than with the fact that he had at last made one. The President is scheduled to travel to Paris, Rome, London, Bonn and West Berlin in three weeks, and he faces the prospect of large street demonstrations by members of the Continent's burgeoning peace movement. In Bonn, as many as 150,000 protesters are expected to mass on the banks of the Rhine across from the building where Reagan will be meeting with the leaders of other North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations. The tone...
There is a moment in one of Vladimir Nabokov's novels when the narrator sees a mirror being unloaded from a van on a street in Berlin. Suddenly the mirror, by a tilt of grace, becomes "a parallelogram...
...capital is a sort of political and strategic island in a Red sea. Communications between 17 million I [East] Germans, about as many people as are living in New York State, and the 61 million of us living in West Germany are hampered. Since the wall was erected across Berlin 21 years ago, we have been able to regain some communication. We are still deeply dissatisfied with it. But it is more than nothing. We don't want to sacrifice it. It is much more important for the 17 million Germans living on the other side than...
...happily drowning in the applause he pathetically needs and will do anything to get. Do the Communists, with their workers' theaters and cabarets, offer him showcases? Very well, he will be a Communist. Does a rather distant and chilly woman offer him social advancement and a way into Berlin's better artistic circles? Fine, he will marry her and quietly send for his mistress once he has settled into his new career in the capital. Do the Nazis flatter him, indulge him and eventually offer him the directorship of a great state theater? All right, he will reshape...
DIED. Robert Havemann, 72, unbending East German pacifist leader who opposed first Hitler and then Communist rulers of his homeland; of heart and lung damage first inflicted when he was imprisoned by the Nazis; in Gruenheid, near East Berlin. An outstanding physical chemist, Havemann joined the Communist Party in 1932 to oppose the Nazis, then 25 years later became an increasingly angry critic of Communist totalitarianism, though he still considered himself a "true Marxist." Purged from the party in 1964, he was scorned as a "Socrates who spoils our youth" and held under house arrest from 1979 until his death...