Word: firebrand
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Quiet, thin, dressed in a conservative pinstriped suit, Kurt Groenewold hardly looks the part of a firebrand lawyer who would conspire with West German terrorists to bring down the state. But Groenewold is now on trial himself in a Hamburg courtroom for "supporting a criminal organization" and furthering the plots of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang, which has wreaked havoc in West Germany for a decade. As Groenewold nervously shuffles papers, his own lawyer politely debates procedural points with the prosecutors. No one shouts obscenities; the tone is orderly and low-key, punctuated only by an occasional muffled cheer from...
...HAVE SEEN the future," French director Jean-Luc Godard seems to say in his latest film, Numero Deux (Number Two), "and it stifles." Like so many firebrand prophets of imminent revolution in the '60s, Godard is now wrestling with this decade's disillusionment. Ten years ago, with films like Weekend and Pierrot Le Fou. Godard became renowned and revered as the most blatantly political, and radical, of the French "new wave directors." His movies shocked and stirred with bitter anti-capitalist and anti-bourgeois visual polemics. But just as Godard was then trying to translate radical ideology onto the screen...
With his rimless glasses, thinning gray hair and predilection for white belts and shoes, Winpisinger hardly looks the part of a radical labor leader; nor do his background and hobbies fit the image of a firebrand. The son of a Cleveland printer, Wimpy started as a diesel mechanic, slowly worked his way up the I.A.M. ladder and today maintains a complete mechanical shop in his home in Wheaton, Md., where he repairs neighbors' lawnmowers as well as his own Oldsmobile and Chevy. But he is one labor leader who states proudly: "I don't mind being called...
...major author of the petition is Oxford-educated firebrand Josif Ton, 42, a Baptist pastor in Ploiesti. Within a few hours after the petition was broadcast over the U.S.-run Radio Free Europe, Rumanian police picked up Ton and his cosigners. During a series of interrogation sessions that began at 7:30 a.m., three of the six leaders were punched and kicked. After four weeks of grilling, the Evangelicals were released-with a warning that they remain in danger of being prosecuted for conspiracy or treason...
...shipped to Pittsburgh, where union aides will count them under the supervision of Labor Department watchdogs. The official results will not be announced for at least another week or two, but private counts by the candidates' organizations make the outcome clear: the grandfatherly McBride, 60, defeated the firebrand Sadlowski, 38, by a margin of about 3 to 2. His victory will bring sighs of relief at AFL-CIO headquarters and in the councils of the steel industry. It means that the federation's biggest union has been kept out of the hands of a rebel, Sadlowski...