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Other Germans disagree. "You cannot build a new start on a lie," says Barbel Bohley, a leading civil rights activist from Eastern Germany. She warns of the possibility of a "corruptible parliament with members susceptible to blackmail" for their Stasi past. Says Karl-Dietrich Bracher, a political scientist at the University of Bonn: "If we were to have a general amnesty, there would be a general disgust with politics. Some kind of purification is necessary...
...inflation exploded, the government faced a barrage of protests. In response, Sarney decided to oust the president of Brazil's central bank, Fernando Bracher, who was under criticism for letting interest rates rise too high. His replacement was Francisco Gros, an economist trained at Columbia University and a friend of Finance Minister Funaro's. The appointment of Gros strengthened Funaro's grip on financial policy, but the minister has yet to convince foreign bankers that he has a viable program for straightening out the economy...
...BRACHER Granger...
...deep and how permanent is the rift? Karl Dietrich Bracher, a respected West German political scientist, thinks it can be easily healed. "Many present commentaries seem overpessimistic and overlook reciprocal interests," he says. "A serious showdown between Europe and the U.S. seems to be a purely theoretical issue." From the other side of the Atlantic, there was a feeling that bygones ought to be bygones. "We have made our point," says one State Department official. "We have shown our anger. Now we can go on with business...
Most grotesque was Roy Bracher, who wore steel-reinforced wings, a bird mask, flippers with claws painted on them, and feathery strips of cloth sewn onto his Mickey Mouse T shirt. Stephen Crouch, dressed as a witch, launched himself on a broomstick. Both plummeted into the water. David Fenwick, a country club owner, sported the most substantial pair of wings: they were 30 feet across, made of spinnaker nylon and spruce and weighed 60 lbs. Fenwick fell like a stone...