Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this week, that was the most intriguing question of all. The basic choice was between a party that promised to abide by the tested ways of the past and one that offered a more innovative approach to the future. In the five general elections since World War II, West German voters unfailingly opted for security, a penchant that has given two decades of unbroken rule to the Christian Democratic Union of Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger. As the current campaign unfolded, however, it seemed that many West Germans might be ready for something new. For the first time since 1930, the revitalized...
Though the Christian Democrats and Socialists have been partners for the past 33 months in the black and red Grand Coalition, the campaign accented their deep differences. In fact, during the campaign's final week, a dispute between the two major parties threatened to unsettle not only German financial affairs but the world monetary system as well. Betting on an upset victory by the Socialists and the prospect of a resulting upward revaluation of the mark -which the Socialists favor-speculators flooded West Germany with nearly $600 million in foreign currency in three days. Kiesinger sought to stem...
...again. Three months ago Bishop Matthias Defregger, 54, of Munich, was publicly accused of having participated in the wartime executions of 17 men from the Italian village of Filetto di Camarda; Defregger, then a Wehrmacht captain, had passed on the execution order avenging the murder of one or more German soldiers. Authorities in Frankfurt eventually dropped the case. Last week, however, the Munich prosecutor had taken up the Defregger affair and was contemplating charges...
...leader in ideology and revolutionary pratique was the German SDS. Convinced that Advanced Industrial Society had developed a complex system to integrate and blunt all opposition within it, they concluded that participation in parliamentary elections, worker-employer councils, student-faculty committees, cte., was all a-big sham. The owners of the big enterprises and the politicians still made the decisions, only "consulting" the people from time to time. To destroy this false impression of participation and open a breech in the system of integration, the political action of SDS became a "refus organisee...
...Roberto Rossellini's films, General della Rovere has the simplest of plots. It's parasitic hero (Vittorio de Sica) takes the money of prisoners' relatives to buy their safety from the Nazis occupying northern Italy. Caught halfway through the film and faced with a death sentence, he accepts a German officer's plan to disguise him as the Resistance hero General della Rovere, whom a German patrol has just shot. In prison he encounters the spirit of the underground he is supposed to penetrate and reveal. Near the end he is given the choice of betraying a Resistance leader trying...