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When 500 hastily summoned foot and mounted police tried to force them back, the protest demonstration exploded into a savage, three-hour melee provoked partly by Communists in the crowd. Crying "Fascists" and "Gestapo,'' the workers dropped lighted cigarettes into police horses' mouths, tried to drag the cops from their mounts, hurled horse manure at them. Some young workers climbed onto the stone figures around the entrance, and one Communist agitator even hauled up a Red flag. When a police cordon forced them away from the buildings after six charges, hundreds of demonstrators staged a sitdown strike...
...remember you! You murdered Jews!" The concert broke up amidst angry confusion. In 1961, after a police investigation. Barenblat was arrested and charged under the Israeli law punishing Nazis and their collaborators who were members of "hostile organizations"-the same law under which Eichmann was tried as a Gestapo member, and which the government now wants extended to include the Jewish police. In Barenblat's case, the maximum penalty would be seven to ten years in prison on each of twelve specific accusations of persecution...
...Long Absence. In a village on the Seine a widow (Alida Valli) keeps a small cafe. Her husband, caught by the Gestapo during World War II, has been dead for 15 years, and she has long since made her peace with life, and found a lover, and stopped thinking about things that thinking cannot change...
Reversing the Rule. The noisiest, angriest Bundestag session in years greeted Adenauer as he rose to state the government's case. The opposition shouts of "Gestapo!" and ''Neofascist!" only made the old man angrier. "Who is this Herr Augstein, anyway?" cried der Alte. "He makes money out of committing treason and I think that is indecent...
...news magazine Der Spiegel in Hamburg and Bonn. The magazine's editor-and-chief Rudolf Augstein and several Der Spiegel executives were arrested and jailed. Simultaneously, Spanish police arrested Conrad Ahlers, one of the magazine's assistant editors, in Madrid. These arrests aroused immediate public outcry against the Gestapo-like violation of freedom of the press...