Word: frankfurt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Words are too poor to express this moment," the Prime Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, declared the next night as Shcharansky arrived in Tel Aviv from Frankfurt aboard an Israeli executive jet. "Welcome, and may you be happy among us." Standing beside his darkly beautiful wife, with whom he had been reunited only a few hours earlier after an absence of twelve years, Shcharansky, 38, told the crowd of well-wishers in halting Hebrew, "There are moments in our life that are difficult to describe. This is the happiest day in our lives." His eyes glistening in the glare...
...smile as he strode across the 4-in.-wide line at the center of the span that marks the barrier between East and West. Then he asked, "When will I see my wife?" Replied one of the Americans: "If all goes well, you'll have a pleasant surprise in Frankfurt...
...curtain at Frankfurt's Kammerspiel theater had just gone up on the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder's controversial 1975 play Garbage, City and Death, and the stage was filled with almost 30 protesters. The interlopers, members of Frankfurt's Jewish community, unfurled a banner reading SUBSIDIZED ANTI- SEMITISM and announced that they would not allow the play to go on. They remained onstage for nearly three hours, engaging the audience in a spirited discussion of what some critics call the "garbage play." The protesters argued that staging the play, whose main character is an unscrupulous real estate speculator identified...
...cited as a contributing factor. In Britain, angry crowds of blacks gave vent to feelings of injustice. In West Germany, where thousands of youths rampaged in 16 cities, the instigators seemed to be experienced rabble-rousers in search of an arena for their violence. They found it in Frankfurt, where a branch of the right-wing National Democratic Party had scheduled a weekend meeting. Because the N.D.P. is regarded by many as a haven for neo-Nazis, its gatherings inevitably bring protests. After demonstrators held a peaceful rally, several hundred hooligans, mostly young, some wearing hoods and black leather jackets...
...smashed windows, looted shops and burned cars. Similar outbreaks occurred in Stuttgart, West Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and other major cities. After five days of violence, dozens of people had been injured and about 500 detained. Police believe many of the rioters were left-wing provocateurs affiliated with terrorist groups. Frankfurt's police spokesman called the troublemakers in his city "professional rowdies who enjoy destruction under some pretext of political motivation...