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...parliament had assembled inside Bonn's Bundeshaus ?a white, flat-topped, modern building with none of the grandeur of other, older European parliaments. Under a 30-ft. backdrop of the national insignia, a black eagle with spreading wings, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt took the podium. Sturdy-looking as a Hamburg dock, chin set squarely as a chopping block, he methodically reviewed the state of his nation three decades after its occupation by the three Western Allied powers that defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. The Federal Republic, he said, had unparalleled economic development, democratic security at home and high...
...emergence of West Germany as a self-confident power has been a natural evolution?the product of an enlightened policy by the Western Allies after World War II that reinforced Teutonic diligence and determination. In 1945 Hitler's thousand-year Reich lay in ruins. Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf were reduced to jagged piles of debris. The Allies' "carpet" bombing had blighted the industrial heartland of the Ruhr Valley and the transportation facilities of the whole country. It was a country with millions of homeless refugees, without leadership, and with a heritage that had to be rebuilt from scratch...
...Born in Hamburg, West Germany in 1919, Schmidt became a member of the Democratic Socialist Party (SPD) in 1947 and a member of the Budestag in 1953. In 1969, after two years as his party's floor leader in the Budestag, Schmidt became Defense Minister under then-Chancellor Brandt. He later became Finance Minister, and when Brandt resigned, took over as Chancellor...
DIED. Leopold Ludwig, 71, celebrated Generalmusikdirektor of the Hamburg Opera (1951-70), popular guest conductor of the Metropolitan and San Francisco operas, and versatile interpreter of contemporary opera as well as of Wagner, Strauss and Mahler; of a heart attack; in Luneburg, West Germany...
Schulz holds a doctor of theology degree from Erlangen University, and for years was a Lutheran pastor at St. Jacobi Church in Hamburg. Since 1971 he has preached that the existence of a personal God is "a comforting invention of human beings." Schulz also wrote a book, Is God a Mathematical Formula?, and, in answer to the title question, he answered no but declared that God emanates somehow from "physical and chemical processes." Prayer? Mere "self-reflection." Life after death? Wishful thinking. Jesus? A normal man with good things to say who was later glorified into...