Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constitution for years that embodied most of the liberal concepts of Western democracies. Drafted in 1949, when the Communists hoped to impose it on a reunified Germany, the constitution contained sections on human rights and religious freedom that were designed to allay the fears of nonCommunists. Not surprisingly, East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht never bothered to put those provisions into practice. Last week, in the first referendum ever held in East Germany, citizens dutifully approved a new constitution that is more in line with the totalitarian nature of the regime...
...constitution spelled out in detail the rights of both Roman Catholic and Protestant churches to give religious instruction in schools, enjoy state protection of religious ceremonies and receive financial support through government-collected taxes. But the new constitution makes no mention whatsoever of the rights of churches. Many East German Protestants fear that Ulbricht will use this ambiguity as a lever to force them to break away entirely from their West German brethren, thus severing the last major formal link between the two Germanys...
...German-born former nightclub comic with puffy cheeks acknowledged himself to be best director, to a mixture of catcalls and sobs from the home audience...
Taiwan has the unenviable distinction of getting epidemics ahead of the U.S. It was so with an epidemic of rubella ("German" or "three day" measles) that swept the western Pacific island eleven years ago; the next major U.S. epidemic did not come until 1964. Then it left at least 20,000 and perhaps 30,000 U.S. babies crippled or blinded from viral damage early in gestation. Taiwan is now experiencing another rubella out break and a threatened epidemic; the next is predicted for the U.S. in 1971. But this time, Taiwan is enjoying pre-epidemic benefits: thousands of doses...
Around a green-covered table in the Foresta, the clash of views was polite, if pointed. Debré, pressing for debate on the monetary system as a whole, came out formally for an increase in the official price of gold. A long silence ensued. Finally, German Economics Minister Karl Schiller registered his disagreement. Italy's Emilio Colombo sided with the Germans. The U.S.'s Fowler suggested that the real business of the meeting was the SDRs and asked that the group move briskly along in that area...