Word: karle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Karl Kaiser, director of the Research Institute of the West German Society for Foreign Affairs and one of his country's foremost strategic thinkers, suggested an answer: "Probably at the beginning the SS-20 was just a modernization program, but now with the debate in the West, I am reasonably sure that the SS-20 program has a much wider, long-term perspective behind it." Kaiser got wholehearted support from Alois Mertes, Minister of State at the West German Foreign Office, who said that both the SS-20 and the proposed counterforce, NATO's Pershing Us and cruises...
...think Karl Marx would have been in total agreement with Hugh Calkins' estimation of the Harvard Corporation's lack of ethical concerns--who with any sense in their head would expect anything but profit and power considerations from a corporation? So in this sense the fasters join every other justice-minded, moral human being on this planet who desires change in the face of insurmountable odds. I guess that means they're "ineffectual," "naive," maybe even a little crazy. But somehow it also seems clear to me that doing something--anything--to protest and bring to public attention a situation...
After boycotting Kohl's formal reinstatement by President Karl Carstens, the Greens soon made their presence felt in the Bundestag. The original seating plan called for them to be placed on the left-hand edge of the chamber, well out of range of television cameras. The Greens demurred, claiming they were not a left-wing party, and threatened to camp in the middle of the floor until their seats were changed. In the end, they got what they wanted: a central strip of 27 seats between the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats. Then came the new session...
...enormous bronze bust in London's sprawling Highgate Cemetery formed a pitifully small cluster. Nor did the perfunctory graveside eulogies give the full measure of the man they were meant to honor. Perhaps no ceremony could truly convey the sheer magnitude of the political and social upheaval Karl Marx's writings have wrought around the world. Still, few disciples of the German theoretician of Communism seemed to know last week just how to observe the 100th anniversary of his death...
...Greater London Council. When left-leaning Labor Party members in the city government voted to spend $53,000 on centenary observances, Conservative Spokesman Stanley Bolton reacted with predictable ire. "We don't owe anything to Marx," he said. "We owe more to Harpo and his brothers than Karl...