Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Nations; they usually suffer endless delays and are then emasculated. Following Lufthansa Pilot Schumann's death, Derry Pearce, president of the International Federation of Airline Pilots Association, threatened a worldwide two-day pilots' strike unless the U.N. finally acted against skyjacking. After a promise from Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim that an "urgent item" on the issue will be brought before the General Assembly this week, Pearce announced that the strike had been postponed...
...many urban terrorists are compensating for inadequate personalities. "If they cry and stamp their feet, no one pays attention. But by taking hostages, in a matter of minutes the whole world is watching. This helps overcome their ego deficit." What motivates many terrorists, observes University of Munich Political Scientist Kurt Sontheimer, is "a deep hatred of present society. They talk vaguely of socialism, but they offer no political theory. Nobody really knows what kind of society they envision...
...DIED. Kurt Adler, 70, chorus master and conductor at New York's Metropolitan Opera (1945-73); after a long illness; in Butler, N.J. A calm man in a frenetic job, Adler said of his chorus, "They are like any other group of people, as good as you make them be and as bad as you let them...
...lands, the dispossessed add to the tide of ecological refugees who have already swollen the Third World's ranks of unemployed and destitute. Unable to feed themselves, they place new strains on the food supply and create a tinderbox for social unrest. Warns U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim: "We risk destroying whole peoples in the afflicted area...
Guido Carli, the former governor of the Bank of Italy who now heads the Italian Confederation of Industry, openly forecasts "an era when private industry is no longer able to make a profit." In West Germany, Kurt Richebacher, chief economist of the Dresdner Bank, speaks of "a grave profitability crisis." In Belgium, Baron Leon Lambert, chairman of the Compagnie Bruxelles Lambert, flatly declares that European regimes are "impotent before the enormousness of the political, economic and social problems that confront...