Word: klaus
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...allowed to read the newspapers and thus learned that the C.D.U. had captured 43.9% of the vote in Berlin's local elections, thereby becoming the city's largest party. This was not enough, however, to elect Lorenz as mayor. Social Democratic Incumbent Klaus Schütz will keep the job, even though his party fell to second place -with 42.7% of the vote-because it can form a coalition with the Free Democrats, who garnered 7.2% of the vote...
...lackluster low-profile image, he stood a chance of winning Sunday's election-which the municipal government decided to let take place despite the kidnaping. Lorenz now may well benefit from a sympathy vote, as well as from a backlash against the governing Social Democrats led by Mayor Klaus Schütz. The mayor was particularly embarrassed by the affair, since Lorenz's police guards-part of a plan to protect leading politicians of all parties-had gone off duty just two hours before the kidnaping...
...original junior faculty letter to Homans was signed by Skocpol, Taylor, Mark S Granovetter, assistant professor of Sociology, and Klaus Allerbeck, assistant professor of Sociology. Granovetter and Allerbeck were unavailable for comment yesterday...
...changed to probation), her hatred of Nazis grew even greater. She and her law-student husband, whose father died at Auschwitz, began to compile dossiers on unpunished German war criminals. In 1971, Beate launched almost singlehanded a campaign to catch and arrest "the Butcher of Lyon," ex-SS Captain Klaus Barbie, who had fled to Peru, then Bolivia. Released from jail several months ago, he is now free in Bolivia...
Like many another middle-income West German, Klaus Gördel sought to put his savings in a bank that would pay the most interest. So several months ago the 45-year-old government official switched his life savings of $12,000 from a government-owned bank to Bankhaus I.D. Herstatt KGaA, one of the country's largest private banks, with 31 branches chiefly in the Rhineland city of Cologne. Last week Gördel and thousands of other Herstatt depositors had their dreams, and quite possibly their savings, wiped out in the most disastrous German banking collapse since...