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...about the dangers, but they are nonetheless unhappy with developments in Lisbon. In an attempt to bolster the Portuguese moderates, the Common Market has told Lisbon that it cannot expect economic aid until there are assurances that Portugal will become a pluralistic society. Declared West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher: "We have no interest in promoting a dictatorial development...
Last week the Social Democrats and their coalition partner, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher's Free Democrats, turned the Tendenzwende around. In North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany's largest state (pop. 17 million) and industrial heartland, the Social Democrats and Free Democrats preserved their 105-to-95 seat edge over the opposition Christian Democratic Union. The same day, in elections in the Saarland, where Christian Democrats have ruled since 1947, the voters turned the C.D.U.'s 27-to-23 majority into a 25-to-25 deadlock. At week's end it was still unclear which party...
...OFTEN been said that ours is an antiheroic age. Nonetheless, Christians have had their share of martyrs in the 20th century. Men like Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Alexander Solzenhitsyn and thousands of other nameless Christians have defied totalitarian persecution; many have died for doing so. Few men have borne more eloquent and courageous witness to the Christian faith in the face of tyranny than Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty...
...passport. The male receptionist turned to a telephone-and turned back to find he was facing a gun. Their access secured, five other terrorists, one a woman, entered the building. Armed with submachine guns, they raced to the top floors and barricaded themselves, along with twelve hostages, including Ambassador Dietrich Stoecker, 59, and his military attaché, Lieut. Colonel Andreas Baron von Mirbach...
...most forceful statements in opposition came years ago from an illustrious Union alumnus, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed by the Nazis. "God has reserved to himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it," Bonhoeffer wrote. "Even if [a person's] earthly life has become a torment for him, he must commit it intact to God's hand, from which it came...