Word: derring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kozara has been proved." Plenca has turned over his Waldheim documents to Yugoslav Journalist Danko Vasovic, who plans to publish them in the spring. But Vasovic apparently could not wait to spread the news. Last week he sold the publication rights for the controversial telegram and other materials to Der Spiegel, the Hamburg-based weekly...
...Der Spiegel, which is publishing the document this week, released its text last weekend. It reads in full: "Very urgent. Lieutenant Kurt Waldheim of General Stahl's staff requests that 4,224 prisoners from Kozara, consisting mainly of women and children and about 15% of old men, be sent on the way: 3,514 to Grubisino Polje and 730 to Zemun." Both were transit camps, channeling people to labor or concentration camps in Germany and Norway. There was no explanation of why the total (4,224) differed from the sum of the two separate figures...
...nearly 36 years, West German viewers tuned in to Der Internationale Fruhschoppen, a weekly program that brought journalists together to discuss current events. Last week the old standby was gone. It had been canceled because Host Werner Hofer, 74, perhaps West Germany's best-known media personality, was forced to resign over charges that he had shown pro-Nazi sympathies during World...
...flap began when the news magazine Der Spiegel published a story suggesting that early in his career Hofer wrote articles approving of Nazi policies, including the 1943 execution of Pianist Karlrobert Kreiten. Hofer had twice before publicly and successfully defended himself against similar accusations. But this time the network that produced his show asked him to leave. Hofer described the charges as "grotesque" and said he would take legal action against Der Spiegel...
...Negro." Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America (Abrams; 200 pages; $35) documents this flowering, from the Paris-trained sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, who built her studio with her own hands, through Painter William H. Johnson, who renounced his academic style for a self-enforced primitivism, to James Van Der Zee, whose camera was witness to Harlem weddings, funerals and roaring good times...