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...Teutonic obsession with internal security has raised concern about the "Ugly German" on occasion. Throughout its largely successful campaign against the wave of terrorism by the notorious Red Army Faction, the .A federal government re frained from overreacting and jeopardizing civil liberties. During the whole period, Schmidt acted coolly and shrewdly. First of all, he had the sense not to call army troops out into the streets, which would have alarmed Germans and other Europeans alike. When he did use troops, in 1977, it was to launch the dramatic commando raid that rescued a hijacked Lufthansa airliner at Mogadishu...
...battle between change and stability undoubtedly will continue to perplex Harvard, as each faction within the University works to promote what it thinks is "best for Harvard." Whether the issue is labor, education, or student causes, the University will continue to encounter both support and opposition in its attempt to remain independent in an over-interdependent world...
Roldós' victory reflected weariness with the junta, which had run into difficulty controlling corruption, inflation, budget deficits and Ecuador's foreign debt. With Washington's approval, the junta consulted with every political faction in drawing up a new constitution that will become effective on Aug. 10. One major change: literacy will be abolished as a requirement for voting, which will add as many as 1 million peasants to the electorate...
...join other countries which have pledged not to give refuge to West German terrorists. Gaddafi not only agreed, but said he would give additional antiterrorist aid to Bonn if needed. Bonn took him up on that offer in November, after four members of West Germany's Red Army Faction wanted for the 1977 slaying of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer were freed by Yugoslavia and rumored to be in a P.L.O. camp. When Bonn's Interior Minister, Gerhart Baum, flew to Libya to discuss the case, the Libyans offered to establish direct contact between Bonn and the P.L.O...
...legislator from Schmidt's Social Democratic Party and P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat. Bonn officials hope that such contacts will give West German terrorists a sobering sense of isolation. As for the Palestinians and the Libyans, they apparently want to dissociate themselves from pure anarchists like the Red Army Faction killers. In any case, says a West German antiterrorist expert: "We are talking...