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...linked the embassies of the world's nuclear powers: the U.S., Britain, France, Israel, the People's Republic of China, South Africa, India and the Soviet Union. The protesters chanted "Hop, hop, hop, Atomraketen stop" and other anti-deployment slogans. Outside the Soviet embassy overlooking nearby Bad Godesberg, hooded men in Ku Klux Klan robes hauled a float carrying six models of silver Pershing II missiles, as four white-faced death figures walked behind. Above a crowd of protesters at the British embassy bobbed U.S. flags on which the red stripes were depicted as missiles and the stars...
...peace groups has come from East Germany and that leaflets and handbills may even have been printed in the Soviet Union. West Germany's more than 48,000-member Communist Party has had an influence on the peace movement disproportionate to its size. During a meeting held in Bad Godesberg last April to plan a protest rally scheduled to coincide with President Reagan's visit to Bonn two months later, leaders of the Protestant and environmental groups that had been at the forefront of the peace movement were repeatedly shouted down by an audience packed with Communists and fellow-travelers...
Although it was no secret that Communists were involved in the peace movement from its inception, the issue came to the fore at a meeting held in Bad Godesberg in April to plan the June rally. Repeatedly, leaders of Protestant and environmentalist groups that led the antinuclear protest last year were shouted down. A proposal to mention Soviet missiles at this week's rally was loudly booed, then voted down. A motion calling for a "nonviolent" demonstration against Reagan was rejected. Later, Ernst Hoplitscheck, a spokesman for the Greens, West Germany's ecology party, charged that...
...resident fraulein of the house at 91 Koblenzerstrasse in the Bonn suburb of Bad Godesberg had received an inordinate number of male visitors for three years. Inexplicably, her neighbors down the street were unaware that sex was for sale at the white villa. As were officers of West Germany's federal criminal police, who were mortified to learn that the Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB, had been operating a brothel around the corner from their local headquarters...
Died. Hans Globke, 74, durable German bureaucrat who became a powerful figure in the postwar government of Konrad Adenauer; of pneumonia; in Bad Godesberg. A career civil servant who first served the Weimar Republic, Globke adapted to Nazi rule in the '30s and helped interpret the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, which deprived Jews of German citizenship. He later maintained that he had done his best to thwart the laws, and despite a public outcry, Globke returned to government after the war. He was appointed State Secretary by Adenauer in 1953, and during the next ten years became...