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...history of the student movement. Prime among them: how might the student protest movement have developed if Germans had known at the time that Kurras was in the pay of the East German secret police? The question is all the more sensitive since that movement spawned the Red Army Faction, postwar Europe's most deadly terrorist organization, which killed at least 34 people in a series of flamboyant attacks stretching into the 1980s. (Read "Germany's Islamic Terrorists: Echoes of Baader-Meinhoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: German Policeman Unmasked as Stasi Spy | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

...their allies - known collectively as the Left Front - were an influential part of the ruling coalition. Now they have been relegated to the fringes of Parliament. "This necessitates action and rethinking," said Prakash Karat, general secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the main Communist faction, speaking to reporters soon after the polls. (See pictures of Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi on the campaign trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why India's Communists Are Losing Ground | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

...sticking point is democratic freedoms, particularly the right of journalists to report the news. Prime Minister Tsvangirai declared that all the banned foreign media organizations - such as CNN and BBC - were now free to operate from Zimbabwe. But Mugabe's faction has not made operating easy, especially for the local reporters the foreign media often hire to help gather information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe in Transition: A 100-Day Report Card | 5/23/2009 | See Source »

...This is about a ban on degrading games in which killing or injury are simulated," Wolfgang Bosbach, deputy chairman of the Christian Democratic Union's (CDU) parliamentary faction, tells TIME. "In general, we need tougher gun laws because we have to protect the public from the misuse of weapons, and we also need to take our laws seriously." (See pictures of America's fascination with firearms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New German Gun Laws Could Ban Paintball | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...speaking about Iran and have also called for her release. The tragedy of an individual American has suddenly found a place on a negotiating agenda crowded with issues of global significance, such as Iran's nuclear development program and its support of anti-Israeli militant groups. Meanwhile, the conservative faction in the United States - as voiced on the Wall Street Journal opinion page - has already used the Saberi case as a cautionary tale for what happens when the U.S. tries to engage with Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is Ahmadinejad Helping Journalist Roxana Saberi? | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

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