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...mustached but magnetic little man bounded out of bed after four hours sleep, soaped his soft flesh with cold water, shaved with cold water, put on his always neat but never smart clothes and braced himself for the third of his encounters with Paul von Beneckendorf und von Hindenburg, Der Reichspräsident...
Your article "Making Hostility a Media Event" [Aug. 29] insinuates that Der Spiegel has depicted the U.S. "as a nation of knee-jerk militarists and simultaneously has managed to find the Soviets flexible and reasonable." To support this vague assertion, you quote Der Spiegel on Yuri Andropov: "He has clearly engaged himself for peace." This quote, which is taken from Der Spiegel's published, abridged version of Andropov, a book by Russian Author and Dissident Zhores Medvedev, who lives in London, presupposes an editorial opinion of our magazine. The complete quote reads: "Signals that he [Andropov] has given...
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...police. For the protesters, who sought to publicize their opposition to scheduled European deployment of U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles, the day was a triumph. The Frankfurter Rundschau (circ. 200,000) contended, "American soldiers on German soil were randomly beating, arresting and handcuffing demonstrators like criminals." The influential newsweekly Der Spiegel (circ. 970,000) said, "Soldiers, armed with bats and grim expressions, took the demonstrators, who did not put up any resistance, and threw them like cargo into army trucks...
...annual Richard Wagner opera festival. Inside a broiling, stifling Festspielhaus, an elegant first-night crowd shed its tuxedo jackets along with its customary solemn decorum as it watched, with growing disappointment, impatience and finally anger, a new production of Wagner's 16-hour, four-evening German myth, Der Ring des Nibelungen, by two British knights, Director Sir Peter Hall and Conductor Sir Georg Solti...