Word: eppler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Advocate is really changing," says Prose Board Chairman Barbara Eppler '83 The rising seniors make up a "more sincere group, mere of a group devoted to the magazine than a social one," she elaborates "We're trying to mediate some of the traditional terror of elections--It's become a more truly open society, in which people earn laurels based on how acute they are about literature," and not on "how clever they can be at the expense of someone else's piece...
...Erhard Eppler, a member of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party who gave a major speech at the October demonstration, is also refusing to attend this week's rally, explaining that he "did not intend to participate in a purely anti-Reagan demonstration." Another speaker at the earlier event, Nobel Prize-winning West German Novelist Heninrich Böll, will not be present on Thursday. In recent interview Böll said: "Inasmuch as the Communists are controlled from Moscow, their orders are to destroy what is meaningful in these movements by taking part in them...
...along with this maneuver. At local party meetings, they presented a battery of motions opposing the Doppelbeschluss. The left's main hope is pinned on a proposal for a total freeze on all new NATO and Warsaw Pact intermediate-range missiles until the Geneva negotiations end. Says Erhard Eppler, a leader of the peace movement and one of Schmidt's main critics within the S.P.D.: "The two-track decision has one major fault. It is meant to pressure the Soviets, but not the Americans...
...James Callaghan complained in the Times of London: "There is growing up a basic difference between the way America and Europe view the world . . . Europeans have a better understanding of the complexities of current world difficulties than the United States." Says West Germany's Social Democratic Party leader, Erhard Eppler: "There is the feeling that the U.S. is a greater menace to peace and stability in Europe than the Soviet Union.1...
...West Germany, the key country in the antinuclear movement, the activists tended to approve of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's initial lukewarm reaction to Jaruzelski's crackdown. Typical was the attitude of Erhard Eppler, a member of the national executive committee of Schmidt's Social Democratic Party and a foe of the nuclear arms race. "For the most part, the peace movement was just as disgusted with what happened in Poland as anyone else," Eppler told TIME Senior Correspondent William Rademaekers. "The events were a shock, but the shock was overshadowed by the very emotional reaction...