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...reception for Luke I. Pontifell '90, who recently published the limited edition of Helmut Kohl's address at last year's Commencement Exercises, German Consul-General Walter Gerhardt praised his country's chancellor as "the German Hercules...
...would they do this for us?" wondered Gerhardt Clauss, 61, a former German infantryman who was seeing the tiny north-woods town of Stark, N.H., for the first time since 1946. Clauss, now a prosperous businessman in north Germany, shook his head, surprised by the brass band, the drill team and bagpiper, the signs announcing GERMAN-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP DAY. On the other hand, why had Clauss, four other former prisoners and an assortment of wives, friends and children come all the way to Stark...
...would have been restless in any culture. It is doubtful, for example, if Brecht ("Wherever I go, they ask me, Spell your name") would have been happy anywhere on earth. Others, like Mann, never really understood the nation they first overpraised, then cursed for being imperfect. Some, like Writer Gerhardt Eisler, were Communists, hypocritical in their horror at the House Un-American Activities Committee. Heilbut's defense of these emigres seems disingenuous: "If Einstein or Thomas and Klaus Mann were back and could observe the Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut or the Moral Majority in New Jersey . . . one doubts...
...weeks ago South African police picked up Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, 47, and accused him of spying for the Soviet Union. The Berlin-born naval officer was apparently recruited by the KGB while training in Britain. Assigned to a naval base located on vital trade routes around the Cape of Good Hope, Gerhardt had access to secrets of international strategic importance...
...Gerhardt is the most senior South African official ever accused of working for the KGB. Four other Soviet spies have been prosecuted there since 1967. Though he is described by authorities as a highly skilled operative, Gerhardt was tripped up on a bureaucratic technicality. When South African military personnel travel abroad they are required to fill out a routine form for their superiors. After officials at Simonstown noticed that Gerhardt had neglected to turn in the documents, they placed him under surveillance. Finally police moved in last week to detain the Gerhardts and conduct a meticulous search among the silver...