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...district court to enjoin the TV spot on the ground that it damages a valuable trademark (film revenues to date: $1.3 billion) by taking Star Wars out of "the congenial realm of fantasy and entertainment" and associating it with "the frightening world of nuclear holocaust and death." When Judge Gerhard Gesell refused to issue an immediate restraining order last week, Graham crowed, "The empire struck back, but the empire struck...
There is no question, according to Gerhard Herdegen, head of the Aliens-bach polling institute in Bonn, that West Germans "want to see the East and West blocs dissolved and the borders loosened," but they do not know how that goal can be reached. Another pollster, Hermann Bausinger of the Ludwig Uhland Institute in Tübingen, detects "a great insecurity about where the future will lead us all." The feeling, Bausinger finds, is strongest among intellectuals and young people...
...champions in the conclave will be many, some with formidable credentials. Rodríguez Maradiaga did not just hang with Bono. Calling debt "a tombstone pressing down on us," he presented a 17 million--signature petition for debt relief at a G-8 meeting, and he has bent German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's ear on the topic. In the 1980s, Brazil's CLAUDIO CARDINAL HUMMES backed strikes and defied his country's dictators by letting leftist labor leader Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (now Brazil's President) make speeches during Mass. He has spoken out in favor of the organization...
...German chancellor Gerhard Schröder's coalition government in danger of falling apart? A lot depends on negotiations this week in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, where neither the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) nor the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) managed to win a majority in a February state election. After incumbent SPD state premier Heide Simonis failed to build a minority government, the SPD and CDU have opened talks on a possible "grand coalition." The CDU has the advantage: by walking away, it would trigger new state elections and almost certainly win. Failure to strike a deal...
...When Gerhard Schröder was first elected German Chancellor in 1998, 3.8 million Germans were out of work. "If we do not considerably lower the unemployment rate, we do not deserve to be re-elected," Schröder said at the time. Seven years later, there are 5.2 million unemployed and Schröder is terrified that voters will take him literally. Last week, the Chancellor unveiled a plan aimed at jump-starting the economy, and met with the leaders of the conservative opposition in a much ballyhooed "jobs summit." But like so many attempted German reforms of recent...