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...BONN: "First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I said nothing..." Even Pastor Martin Niemoller's famous poem denouncing German silence in the Holocaust is silent on those concentration camp inmates who wore the pink triangle. But Wednesday's official Holocaust Memorial ceremonies for the first time included a special tribute to the estimated 12,500 gay men who died after being sent to the camps because of their sexual orientation. "Germany has waited this long to acknowledge the gay victims of Nazism because public acceptance of homosexuality has been slow in coming," says...
Turkey may toss the Abdullah Ocalan hot potato to Germany, but Bonn will probably decline to catch it. Turkey's government -- which collapsed Wednesday in the face of a corruption scandal -- has signaled it would be happy to see the Kurdish rebel tried in a third country. Italy refused Turkey's request to extradite Ocalan, but Germany could still potentially charge him with incitement to murder. For all Turkey's protests, Italy's decision may actually help Ankara by sparing them the trouble that might have arisen from trying Ocalan at home. "Putting Ocalan on trial in Turkey could cause...
...Turkey's hot potato, however, doesn't get any cooler in Germany -- which is home to 2.2 million Turks and 600,000 Kurds. "Germany is reluctant to extradite Ocalan because it doesn't want to import Turkey's war," says TIME Bonn correspondent Ursula Sautter. "Ocalan's movement has always had a foothold in the Kurdish community here, and there's good reason to suspect there would be trouble if he were put on trial here." If Ocalan becomes a defendant without a courtroom, it will be an ironic echo of his followers' claim to be a people without...
...accomplishes as President of the U.S. The snide jokes and questions do not center on Clinton and his sex life but on the circus the American media have made of things. No one can understand why Lewinsky has any relevance to the workings of the American government. STEPHEN HOLODINSKY Bonn...
...BONN: Germany's swing to the left has put smooth-talking centrist Gerhard Schroeder in power, but it may also make life difficult for the new chancellor. Schroeder was finalizing plans Monday for a coalition with the Greens, whose 47 seats would give him a 21-seat majority. "Here's a guy who got elected as representing 'the new center,' but both his Green coalition partners and the left wing of his own Social Democratic Party aren't enthusiastic about his economic plans," says TIME correspondent James Graff. "It's not surprising that he's being cagey about policy specifics...