Word: german
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ripples from Three Mile Island are reaching Europe's shores, giving much new force to the antinuclear movement. The West German government two weeks ago had to scuttle plans to build a nuclear reprocessing and waste-storage facility at Gorleben, near the East German border, after a Harrisburg-inspired protest by environmentalists and "citizen initiative" groups. Said Count Otto Lambsdorff, West Germany's Economics Minister: "This could be the death knell for our whole nuclear policy, including the export of nuclear plants...
MARRIED. Günter Grass, 51, eminent German novelist (The Tin Drum, The Flounder); and Ute Grunert, 43, an organist; in Wewelsfleth, West Germany; both for the second time...
...have done in the late 1930's-early 1940's if it had owned stock in American corporations with subsidiaries in Nazi Germany. Would it have adopted an investment policy similar to the one it now owns up to in South Africa and offered three or four scholarships to German-Jewish students to come to Harvard? That is a question that perhaps no one can answer with great certainty, but the present South Africa stockholding policy casts a dark fearful shadow over the answer...
...crustily funny about it; traveling across Canada by train, surrounded in the railway car by drunken men, her Elizabeth has the fragile temerity to howl "Canadians, do not vomit on me!" More often she is sincere, direct, touching, with only a trace of the sentimentality of the German romantics she quotes so often. Evil is not in her world, or in men, but in their confluence; the pain and sleepless nights are not in women, or in men, but in their great need for each other. The waltz, she cautions us, is not as easy as it looks, and clumsiness...
...selection of a scholar to fill the Krupp chair, endowed in the faculty of Arts and Sciences by the family that led the German armaments industry for nearly a century, has been a source of interdepartmental dispute for the past four years, Faculty sources said yesterday...