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Tuesday, November 22 CBS REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). 'Inside Red China," narrated by Marvin Kalb. Films taken last spring by a West German crew peer inside homes, a steel mill and a university, also show life in a farm commune and the cities of Shanghai, Peking and Wuhan. Other films document the recent upheavals of the Red Guards...
...home state in 1961. In the end, Phil lost the limelight to a G.O.P. novice, Norbert ("Nobby") Tiemann, 42, himself a Kennedy-handsome, 6-ft. 3-in. banker from Wasau (pop. 724). An unknown nine months ago, Tiemann stumped the state shaking every outstretched hand, put across his German name with the slogan: "Tiemann. . . Nebraska's Way to Spell Governor." He won by 101,586 votes...
Kiesinger also, played up the fact that he had proved himself to be a good democrat and a tireless advocate of Franco-German friendship. That seemed good enough for most Germans. Both opposition parties pledged not to attack him for the Nazi ties. The German press seemed to agree with the mass-circulation tabloid Bild Zeitung that "Kiesinger has to blame himself for nothing more than youthful error...
Soldiers in labor unions? The very idea would be enough to set Clausewitz cackling in his grave. Yet last week unionization of the West German army was proceeding apace-with the approval of both Bonn and the Bundeswehr. At a meeting with West German labor leaders in Baden this month, Army Inspector General Josef Moll put his blessing on the union. "My presence," he declared, "proves to you that we generals recognize the constitutional right of soldiers to organize in labor unions...
P.S.T. & T.W.U. (S.S.). It was indeed a turning point in German history. Ever since 1713, when Frederick William I forged the Prussian army into "a state within a state," the German military has looked harshly on labor. Army bayonets cut down the demonstrating workers in 1848; army rifle butts broke strikes in the years that followed. Even after the defeat of World War II, German officers retained their antilabor sentiment, labeled union organizing efforts "contradictory to the principle of command and obedience." In August, Christian Democratic Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel knuckled under to labor pressure and permitted...