Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power. The coal miners, most defiant of the strikers, cut only enough coal for essential services, and threatened to flood the mines if further coerced. Many miners in the Tatabanya and Pecs areas had taken to the hills and were operating as armed guerrillas. Radio Free Europe monitors in Munich were still taping signals from a rebel radio transmitter, evidently moving with a band of Freedom Fighters: "Attention, workers, hold out! The hours of the Kadar regime are numbered...
...crime against humanity." Embittered Hungarian refugees and Free Democratic Party papers took up the cry. Said Bonn's Freies Wort: "Irresponsible promises of help and aggressive propaganda of RFE carry a good part of the blame for the blood bath in Hungary." At RFE's Munich headquarters, European Director Richard Condon denied the charges: "In no broadcast did RFE incite to armed revolt or indulge in cheap, inflammatory propaganda. In no broadcast was the promise of active help by the West given...
...since Munich has Britain's press been so shaken as by the attack on Egypt (see FOREIGN NEWS). Unlike the French papers, which overwhelmingly cheered the assault, British national dailies either attacked the government or went along with it reluctantly, showing every evidence of troubled conscience...
...Tiger Tank. Like a great many other Germans, Defense Minister Strauss learned about armies the hard way. The butcher's son dodged the early Nazi draft by entering Munich University, where he topped the examination lists, joined a Catholic students' organization and brawled with young Nazis. When the call-up for World War II carne in 1939, he talked himself out of the infantry ("Because I don't like walking") and into the artillery. He was almost court-martialed for calling his uniform a Klufterl (a childish masquerade). But he served in Poland, France, Russia...
...with a powerful chest and wide shoulders, he walks with the stiff gait of a Bavarian peasant. His eyes are small and blue, and his head is square and massive, with thick, dark blond hair. "He has the manners of the Munich Tal," says Free Democrat Leader Thomas Dehler (the Tal is Munich's slum district). But inside Franz Josef Strauss's square head is a fast-thinking brain gifted with a photographic memory. His bachelor apartment near Bonn, his office and his automobile are jampacked with books, which he reads voraciously and from which he can often...