Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediate cause of the Bonn confrontation was the fatal shooting of Student Benno Ohnesorg, 26, during the anti-Shah rioting. His death by a police bullet has elevated him to martyrdom; the New Left now talks of him the way angry West Germans talked of Peter Fechter, who was killed by East German border guards at the Berlin Wall five years ago. West Berlin's police chief (since furloughed) hardly helped matters when he called the anti-Shah crowd "a liverwurst . . . You press it in the middle to squeeze it out at the end." To the distress...
Ideological capital of the rebel students is West Berlin's sprawling Free University (enrollment: 15,000), founded in 1948 with American support. In contrast to most tradition-bound German campuses, it has been a model of relaxed student-faculty relations and loose campus rules. Among the many student organizations, the most articulate political voice belongs to the Socialist German Student League. There is also a clutch of small, far-out radical cliques, such as the Maoist "Kommune I," in which men and women share worldly goods and sexual favors...
Declaration of War. The newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine reflected the attitude of many older Germans when it called the student protests "a declaration of war against society." Other observers, however, applaud the youthful activities. They see it all as a fitting reaction to the authoritarianism that is still prevalent on German campuses. They blame student attitudes on the scant attention paid to the nation's overcrowded educational facilities while the rest of the country has prospered, and on the stifling of political debate since Brandt's opposition Social Democrats joined the ruling Christian Democrats in the Grand Coalition...
...tall Texan who was general manager of Ford of Germany until he returned to Detroit as the parent company's European vice president in 1965. During seven years on the job in Germany, Andrews launched a period of growth that has seen Ford's share of the German auto market increase from 7% to 18%. In his new post, he will try to help Ford weather the effects of European recession. Last year the company's auto sales were off 12% in Britain, 5% in Germany...
...Dirty Dozen is the definitive enlisted man's picture. In its view, World War II was a private affair in which officers were hypocritical, stupid or German, and only the dogfaced soldier was gutsy enough to be great. In this film, the lopsided interpretation works largely because of a fine cast and a taut plot that closes the credibility...