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Unlike the real Bonnie and Clyde, who robbed banks mostly for the hell of it, Baader and Meinhof are far-left political revolutionaries who turned to crime as a way of waging war against bourgeois society. As Meinhof put it in a clandestine interview published by Der Spiegel, "What we want to do and show is that armed confrontation is feasible-that it is possible to carry out actions where we win, and not the other side. Cops have to be fought as representatives of the system. Cops are pigs, not human beings...
...Less," said the late architect, Mies van der Rohe, "is more." Folk Singer Joan Baez and Husband David Harris-so happily married when he was in jail on a three-year sentence for refusing induction into the Army-have found since his release ten months ago that more marriage is less happiness. "Living together is getting in the way of our relationship," David has told his friends to explain the split. "I agreed with that," says Joan. "We're continuing to work together, and our son Gabriel is thriving, and that's all that matters anyway...
...Social Democrats are not unhappy about Barzel's victory. An Allensbach Institute opinion poll in July gave Schröder 41% of the vote against 43% for Brandt; Barzel got only 34% v. 50% for the Chancellor. But there are those who believe that Barzel can be sold to the public, much as Richard Nixon...
...chairmanship was Helmut Kohl, 41, up-and-coming prime minister of Rhineland-Palatinate. Although a capable administrator, the reform-minded Kohl presented his case in a nebulous, unconvincing manner. Moreover, some Christian Democrats objected to the fact that Kohl ran for chairman in tandem with Gerhard Schröder, who wanted to be the C.D.U. nominee for Chancellor. Schröder, 61, held cabinet posts under three C.D.U. Chancellors and leads Barzel in popularity polls, but the party dislikes him because of his aloofness...
...cars, and his aversion to photographers and public appearances, his notoriety as a superspy has always made General Reinhard Gehlen a controversial figure. As head of German military intelligence on the Eastern Front during World War II, Gehlen so infuriated Hitler with his precise predictions of Soviet victories that der Führer ordered him sent to an insane asylum. Instead, he fled to the Bavarian Alps, and later made a deal with the invading Americans: 50 cases of secret data on the Red Army in return for U.S. financial and political backing for what became Bonn's postwar...