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...Christian Democrats in Bonn. Though the Free Democrats received 10.6% of the vote in the 1980 parliamentary elections, their great fear was that the S.P.D.'s declining fortunes would eventually rub off on their own party. For the F.D.P, a substantial loss of support could be fatal. According to the West German constitution, any group that fails to win at least 5% is excluded from the Bundestag. Troubled by internal disagreements and trying to assess a possible shift in alliances at the national level, the F.D.P. decided to enter elections in the state of Hesse without their local S.P.D...
...experiment's opponents fear that if the treated toxin were accidentally released into the atmosphere, it could trigger a diphtheria epidemic. Diphtheria is an often-fatal disease whose spread was effectively wiped out by a vaccine...
...shown only as disembodied legs, striding conspiratorially about as they seek out the little alien. When they arrive at Elliot's house, marching en masse in their spacesuits, it is nothing less than an enemy invasion. And it is in their custody that E. T. suffers his near-fatal relapse--they do not realize, as the movie's three children do, that what ails the creature is a deep-felt need to communicate with his home-star...
...sequel volume, the former deputy chief of the British general staff describes in finer detail the events that follow the fatal decision of the Soviet Union, powerful militarily but shaky in its economy and unsure of Poland and its own Asian provinces, that the moment has come to attack what it assumes to be a soft and irresolute NATO alliance. When their mighty armored thrusts into West Germany fail-just barely-to overwhelm NATO, the Soviets gamble that a nuclear attack will throw the West into panic, and they vaporize Birmingham, England. Twenty-five minutes later the Allies detonate four...
...about a million dollars a week on their nightly news. Big budgets made possible the satellite reporting from West Beirut; large American audiences agonizing over what they saw (including one viewer in the White House) hastened the ceasefire. But if network news is indispensable, it is also inadequate. Its fatal flaw is fear of the bored viewer switching channels. Those who get their news mostly from TV, as most Americans do, end up spottily informed. Richard Nixon, who can be right some of the time, says that "television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy...