Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saying that neither side changed its position. For all his courtesy, Debré emphasized that the French are not so keen as the British to make concessions to the Russians, and are determined to avoid any appearance of dealing with Khrushchev behind the back of the West German government...
...himself, was beaten to death by a street crowd; so, for good measure, was his companion. In West Germany, in an odd echo of the Algerian troubles, the public prosecutor of Frankfurt charged that a French underground organization called "the Red Hand" had murdered five Swiss and German citizens in a clandestine war against Central European businessmen engaged in selling arms to Algeria's rebel F.L.N...
...champion. He fought his way up to sixth place on the boxing press's list of U.S. heavyweights before Joe Louis knocked him out in Oakland, Calif, in 1949; then he drifted off to Europe, where he won some notice but not top billing as an actor in German films and TV. Last week Al Hoosman found himself an acknowledged champion at last-champion of the 5,000 luckless children born in Germany to U.S. Negro G.I.s and the German women they met during the occupation...
Back in 1950, when Al was still a heavy-weight-at-large hanging around the Frankfurt PX, he got to know some German girls with Negro babies. He heard the bitter stories of the Negerkinder. He heard about the little boy who, taunted by a ring of white children crying, "Du schwarzer Neger," answered them bitterly: "Be happy...
...years later Hoosman landed a leading role in a German movie called Toxi-and the part set him to thinking. Says he: "I played a Negro G.I. who regrets having left his girl friend in the lurch, and comes back to Germany to get his baby." It led him to try organizing boxing benefits for G.I. Negro children; but he got little help from the U.S. Army, which was not anxious to call dramatic attention to its illegitimacy problem. Last year, impelled by the fact that the great majority of Negro-fathered children are now approaching the school-leaving...