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...convoy reached a bunker, behind which and out of sight stood a battery of Soviet-made 122-mm. guns. When they opened fire, we saw their shells explode inside Israeli lines about one mile away. "It is a daily thing," a Syrian officer said. "We try to stop them from improving their positions." It was not too long before the Israelis responded. American-made 155-mm. shells burst on either side of the bunker...
...HEART AND ONE SOUL. Hen Alfred Tetzlaff is the hero of West Germany's hottest new situation comedy. He is a first cousin to both All in the Family's Archie Bunker and his relative, Alf Garnett of the BBC comedy series Till Death Us Do Part. Herr Tetzlaff is a slobbish, slipper-shod metalworker. Married to an addled blonde whom he calls "dumb cow," he has a jeans-wearing daughter and a liberal son-in-law. He deplores long hair, beards and miniskirts, surefire signs of Germany's moral decline. He also dislikes almost everybody, especially...
However, the German Bunker, says the show's producer, Wolfgang Menge, is "more malicious, less human, more vulgar" than his American counterpart. The cocky, mustachioed Alfred was intended to be loathsome, and to impress his estimated 27 million viewers as such. Instead, his tirades have inspired a flood of laudatory mail: "Dear Herr Tetzlaff, you spoke right out of my heart," or "Keep on! You have millions of people on your side." Archie Bunker, when he first appeared, got his share of similar support, but-in the eyes of a critical national and foreign press, at least-Archie...
...putsch in Munich in 1923, Hitler scurries to safety-and to despairing Hamletesque thoughts of suicide. After he had won the Reich chancellorship a decade later, he posed as the "lonely wanderer out of nothingness" who had come to power. Finally there was the "imitation Wagnerian end" in a bunker in burning Berlin...
Griffith believes that the press, like other U.S. institutions, did not cope well enough with the upheavals of the '60s. It fell too readily for the glib and the dramatic, and was slow to understand the "voice of Archie Bunker's America." Griffith also worries about the "artificial momentum" of major stories: "Once a theme to the news emerges-that McGovern vacillates, that Lyndon Johnson has a credibility problem, that Nixon has much to hide-then any small fact, otherwise inconsequential, can be tied to the theme and made to seem news...