Word: josef
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...neutron warhead, gave what amounted to a qualified endorsement of the weapon. Said Charles Hernu, the Defense Minister in the new Socialist government of François Mitterrand: "The neutron bomb must not obscure the reality of the threats posed by the [Soviet] Euromissiles." In West Germany, Franz Josef Strauss, who was the conservative Christian Democratic opponent to Schmidt in last year's election, said that the "dismal situation of defense budgets" in NATO countries had left Reagan with no real alternative...
...Soviets also got Brandt to push their idea of a nuclear "free zone" in Scandinavia. NATO would agree not to install any weapons in the region, but the Soviets remain vague on whether they would dismantle any such arms on their side of the border. Franz Josef Strauss, the conservative candidate who opposed Schmidt in last year's election, charges that Brandt has allowed himself to become part of "Brezhnev's psychological warfare aimed at intimidating the West...
Publicly, Barth kept berating the West for its nuclear buildup and its cold war mentality. But privately, as the book reveals for the first time, he wrote to fellow-traveling Czechoslovak Theologian Josef Hromádka, saying: "My hair stands on end" at the concept of "freedom and peace" through "Nikita, Mao and even Fidel." Hromádka's association of the Christian Gospel with the political cause of Communism, he said, was a mirror image of the sin committed by Niebuhr and other anti-Communist "Western fathers...
Compounding these charges, Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. cited Simon Wiesenthal, the famed hunter of surviving Nazis, as having told a Uruguayan journalist that Timerman had interfered with Wiesenthal's decades-long pursuit of Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi physician who performed deadly experiments on Jews at Auschwitz. Buckley claimed that Wiesenthal had also characterized Timerman as a "leftist" who had been sent to jail not because he was Jewish, but because he was "accused of being in favor of terrorism." In Israel last week, Wiesenthal said the latter statement had been quoted out of context, though...
...Josef Sryck Tel Aviv...