Word: german
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without the Core, Maria M. Tatar, professor of German, believes she would never have developed her Core offering, "Weimar Culture," Literature and Arts C-13, although she has wanted to teach such a course for some time. "The Core provided the impetus to go ahead. It somehow legitimized it, gave my idea institutional backing," she says...
...reading list likewise runs from Thomas Mann's short stories to Remarque's familiar All Quiet on the Western Front. But this won't be a frolic through translated works: The texts are all read in German, although Tatar will conduct class discussions in English...
...Most of our people and politicians have not yet realized the danger," says a top-level West German narcotics agent, "but the situation is almost out of hand already." Overworked police are appealing to the federal government for tougher antidrug laws and more manpower. Says Erich Strass, the federal crime office's narcotics chief: "We must put the drug danger on the same level with the terrorist danger. Otherwise we will be overwhelmed in a year...
Working with U.S. military police, West German agents last month arrested 29 people for illegal possession of heroin in the southern town of Oppenheim. The raid netted 24 American G.I.s from near by Anderson Barracks. Also caught were two Turkish immigrant workers and three West German women, including one 24-year-old who was the ring's alleged leader. In all, police seized quantities of heroin worth $164,000 at street prices. Even though American soldiers were involved, U.S. military personnel have long ceased to be the main source of West Germany's narcotics problem. Trafficking and addiction...
...ascendancy as Western Europe's main heroin market, that dubious distinction belonged to Amsterdam, which had dominated the trade following the breakup of the infamous "French Connection" in 1972. But unlike the highly organized drug networks that have operated in France, The Netherlands and the U.S., the West German drug trade is mainly in the hands of individual entrepreneurs selling the stuff on their own. This makes it all the more difficult to stem the tide. Arrest statistics indicate that a very high proportion of the smugglers are Turkish immigrants, who constitute about 2% of West Germany...