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...probably mean little in practical terms. Most of those who commit the crimes either belong to groups that barely deserve to be called extremist or are lone operators. Officials admit that a ban also forces the more organized groups underground, making it tougher to track them. Nonetheless, political scientist Gerd Mielke maintains that the ban "is a blow against right-wing extremists in making their activities illegal. Much more important is its function as symbolic politics, as drawing a line for the public." Not enough of that defining, of what is acceptable and what is not, has been done thus...
...army of specialists -- from physiologists and psychologists to nutritionists and biomechanists. Result: athletes who are training not just harder but smarter. With some players already working seven hours a day, six days a week, "it is physically and socially irresponsible to increase the volume of training any more," says Gerd-Peter Bruggemann, a professor of biomechanics at the German University of Sports Sciences in Cologne. "Science must think of ways to make training more efficient...
...April 1988 a tiny organization called the Initiative for Peace and Human Rights gathered in the East Berlin apartment of Gerd and Ulrike Poppe to draft a letter protesting the deportation of two of the group's members. The 15 people at the meeting had been close friends for years. Most were involved in Lutheran church activities; two were pastors. And at least four of the 15 were also paid informers of the East German Ministry for State Security, the Stasi...
...files lie in folders, binders, boxes and brown paper bags, stacked in five floors of rotating shelves a total of 125 miles long. Some papers are baled and tied with twine, some are scattered loose, some are stuffed unsorted into canvas bags. "We found letters we never received," said Gerd Poppe. "There were pictures taken through our window, transcripts of taped telephone calls. There was such a mass of information that it simply could not be evaluated...
...firms say company policy prohibits sales that contribute to the proliferation of chemical weaponry. "It's not ethical to get involved in things that could end up in chemical weapons," said Mobay spokesman Gerd Wilcke. The Pentagon is in a bit of a quandary since the two companies are the only domestic suppliers. Chemical-weapons opponents are discreetly gleeful. Said Congressman Dante Fascell, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: "This incident should give the Pentagon a chance to rethink its posi-tion and support the President's own policy of chemical non- proliferation...