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Died. Hans-Christoph Seebohm, 64, longtime (1949-66) West German Transport Minister; of a lung clot; in Bonn. As a public servant, Seebohm swiftly rebuilt and expanded Germany's war-ravaged railroads, autobahns, ports and waterways. As a politician, he was signally less successful. His incessant clamor for the return of the Sudeten-land-yielded to Hitler in 1938 and handed back to Czechoslovakia in 1945 -was a constant embarrassment to the Bonn government...
...pissoir, the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem." In the fantasies of Rockwell's chimerical world, he envisioned shipping 20 million American Negroes to Africa and gassing Jews after a grateful nation elected him President in 1972. After the depression that Rockwell predicted for 1969, the U.S. would clamor for "a white leader with the guts of a Malcolm...
...statement made it clear that De Gaulle was not about to apologize to his Canadian hosts or even appear contrite for the clamor he raised with his call for a Quebec libre. Well aware that his new statement would only keep the hassle alive, he said with a kind of wistful pride: "It's always been like that." Lest any of his ministers had forgotten, he then recalled the brouhahas of other days-from his refusal to meet F.D.R. after the Yalta Conference in 1945 to his recognition of Red China in 1964. The Canadian government, however, refused...
Even German high schools are getting into the act, and barely a week goes by without a student outburst. The rallying cry may be Viet Nam, dictatorship in Athens or price hikes at the campus cafeteria. Whatever it is, the excuse for the clamor is of secondary importance. West Germany's students seem determined to mobilize behind any cause that suggests they are carrying the torch of democracy...
...International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. and the American Broadcasting Companies nothing but static. The Federal Communications Commission approved the merger last December, but only by a bitterly divided 4-to-3 margin that failed to silence objections from Congress and the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. As the clamor mounted, the FCC finally agreed in March to take another look...