Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schroder for fingering him, when Schroder was Foreign Minister, as the man who ordered the arrest of an edi tor in the 1962 Der Spiegel scandal. The ambitious Strauss, who aims at the chancellorship for himself one day and sees Schroder as a rival, accused Schroder of misleading the German public with "lies and deliberate propaganda...
After two or three meetings with Kiesinger, Schroder continued to insist that the cutback would mean a drop in army strength. His goading finally led Kiesinger to announce that he would make no decision on any changes in German armed strength before consulting President Johnson, whom he will visit in Washington beginning Aug. 15. Schroder so far has not been asked to go along. In fact, the two are not at all compatible. The austere North German Defense Minister and the relaxed Swabian could hardly be more unlike in taste, temperament and several areas of policy. Schroder, the only unremitting...
...elephants that roam South Africa's huge Kruger National Park are normally friendly enough. Last week however, even park rangers kept their distance from the beasts. One elephant recently sat down on a Volkswagen and flattened it, though the two German tourists inside had time to escape...
Frowning, the musicians tried again to make all the diddlidongs and sboops in German Composer Hans Werner Henze's In Memoriam: Die Weisse Rose sound the way the conductor said they should. And the conductor was in a position to know. It was Henze himself, rehearsing for the first of two concerts of his works last week in Hopkins Center on the campus of Dartmouth Col lege in Hanover...
...that the Soviet Union has rebuilt the cities that were devastated by the German army in World War II, and now that the Cold War tension of the Stalinist era has eased, Russia is becoming an increasingly popular target for tourists. In 1956, fewer than 500,000 foreigners were adventurous enough to travel through the U.S.S.R.-one-eighth the number that visited France the same year-and about three-quarters of them were from the Communist countries of Eastern Eu rope. This year, which marks the 50th anniversary of the Revolution, Russia expects more than 1,500,000 tourists...