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...border between life and death." The next year Brandt announced his intention to divorce his wife of 31 years. With his drinking under control, today Brandt's buoyant step and year-round tan symbolize the dramatic change in his lifestyle. He is happily ensconced in a penthouse near Bonn. His close companion is Brigitte Seebacher, a young party activist who insists that he exercise daily and maintain his diet, and who takes him to her own hairdresser. Brandt affectionately calls Seebacher "my watchdog...
Throughout Western Europe, Begin's reputation fell to an all-time low. Lord Carrington, the British Foreign Secretary, called in the Israeli Ambassador to warn him that pre-emptive strikes, "with their horrible trail of human destruction, cannot conceivably advance the cause of peace." In Paris and Bonn, top officials were equally scathing in private...
...only Protestantism's preeminent theologian, but a public figure. In 1934 he drafted the creed of the anti-Nazi "Confessing Church," which organized German Protestantism against Hitler's puppet church. That same year he was fired from his professorship at the University of Bonn for refusing to take the ritual faculty pledge of allegiance to Hitler. Returning to his native Switzerland, the archfoe of Nazism often perplexed Westerners-including America's Reinhold Niebuhr-with his live-and-let-live attitude toward Communism...
Chicago Correspondent Patricia Delaney, who as a child visited uncles who were resident officers at Fort Sheridan and the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, returned to both bases and found that for today's officers the quality of life has "deteriorated sharply." Bonn Correspondent Lee Griggs was also struck by the poor conditions he encountered as he traveled to U.S. bases across West Germany. Says Griggs: "There is a great deal of concern here that the situation could possibly undermine morale and thus military preparedness. It is an appalling story of decay and neglect...
Wolfgang, 24, and Sandra, 18, huddle together on the sparsely furnished third floor of an abandoned Bonn house that the couple helped to seize in April. Wolfgang-he refuses to give his last name because that would be "dangerous"-is a bricklayer who talks about his squatting as if it were a political commitment. His attitude reflects a poster statement on the wall: "Better to occupy a house than a foreign country." Sandra is in sympathetic agreement...