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Angry pacifists rampage through the streets of Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich in protest against West German membership in NATO. The CIA reports that they will burn down barracks of foreign troops next day. Though West German police cannot cope, Chancellor Erhard's Cabinet decides not to call out the army. The U.S., French and British ambassadors meet, proclaim a state of emergency, dissolve the Bundestag and jail the Cabinet...
...many ways, they have succeeded spectacularly well. But redemption through hard work, whether prescribed by Goethe or by Ludwig Erhard, has its limitations. Despite the visible and invisible Autobahnen, despite the gleaming cars and ambitious towers, despite the homburgs in Hamburg and the shoulder minks in Munich, despite all the scenes of prosperity, West Germany is deeply troubled...
Squads of security police stormed into the magazine's Hamburg head quarters and its bureau in Bonn, ransacking files and arresting everyone in sight. Publisher Rudolf Augstein was held without bail, and Military Editor Conrad Ahlers was forcibly sent back from a vacation in Spain. In the Defense Ministry, Strauss issued a hastily prepared memorandum charging that Der Spiegel had betrayed military secrets. In the Bundestag, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer shook with rage as he denounced "an abyss of treason in this land." The public and press reacted in a different way. "Gestapo!" roared newspapers throughout the land. Students marched...
Under Rhythm. In London, once a wasteland for modern dance, the company was held over for an unprecedented run of six weeks. Sweeping through Germany this month, they scored one resounding triumph after another, including an unheard-of 61 curtain calls in Hamburg. Wrote Die Welt's Klaus Geitel, "They are not stuck to the rhythm. They run under it, draw circles around it. They dance its impulses in the most manifold way and with a glorious freedom. It is a triumph of sweeping, violent beauty, a furious spectacle. The stage vibrates. One has never seen anything like...
...Starting last January, it took 57 hearings and 300 hours of juicy testimony. Witnesses from Egypt, the Sudan, Lebanon and Switzerland babbled in six languages. Claire shrieked obscenities in Arabic, jolting her lawyer, ex-Italian Premier Giovanni Leone. One witness recoiled from facing Claire, and the court traveled to Hamburg to interview...