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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...
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...
...fuels up on yogurt and black coffee but does not go to many jazz clubs these days, although his Munich digs might be mistaken for the apartment of an affluent student. The place is crammed with books and records, but Eicher recently declined to spend $20,000 for a Josef Albers oil. He did not have the room for it, he said. Besides, the next time he is recording in Oslo, he can always go look at a Munch...