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Tear-Gas Attack. On the far right, the four-year-old National Democratic Party suffered its first setback at the polls when rightist candidates collected only 5.2% of the vote in local elections in the big West German state of Lower Saxony, which borders on East Germany. Until now, the National Democrats have been winning a higher percentage of the vote in each succeeding election, gaining 9.8% in last April's state elections in Baden-Württemberg...
...days after the Lower Saxony elections, the National Democrats' leader, Adolf von Thadden, was forced to suspend a series of scheduled party rallies after some 1,500 students broke up his first appearance on the hustings in Bonn. Shouting "Get the Nazis out of here," the students drowned out Von Thadden's speech and chased him from the podium with tear gas. But despite the setback in Lower Saxony, most forecasts predict that in next year's West German general elections, the National Democrats will win at least 40 of the Bundestag's 496 seats...
...week cleared her of the charges, in effect ruling that all works of fiction fall outside existing Spanish legislation. Some observers speculated that in view of conspicuous and longstanding government pressure, the decision represented less a display of leniency from above than a spirited show of independence by the lower courts. The duchess still faces the possibility of trial on similar charges in other courts, but the newly established precedent offered fresh cause for optimism. "In Spain," the duchess once said, "there are two professions that are equally risky: the torero's and the writer's." The writer...
...Cleveland, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Boston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Manhattan. While the auto made it easy for Los Angeles to sprawl, earthquake fears made it difficult for the city to grow vertically. Until 1959, a local ordinance limited buildings to a height of 150 feet or 13 stories, whichever was lower. The results of improved structural-testing techniques finally persuaded the city engineers that skyscrapers would be safe. With the ceiling abolished, the city's skyline slowly began to rise. The major impetus was supplied by the completion of a network of freeways during the '60s. They not only...
...Republican posture towards discontented students and Gerald Ford's enthusiasm for a political gimmick to solve student aid problems seem to indicate that a Republican government would not share the Democratic Administration's desire to maintain an independent educational system open to students from middle and lower income families. In education, at least, it's hard to believe Nixon...