Word: municheer
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...Munich...
...says, "He waited for almost a year, just watching me, before he dared to say hello. It was the most romantic love story. We were two children in love in our own world." Soon enough, another world beckoned. At a party in Munich, she met Roman Polanski. He was 42; she was 15. "It started out as a light romance," Polanski says. "But I quickly realized that Nastassia had the potential to become a great actress. Now Nastassia is passionate about being in movies. Indeed, she has nothing else on her mind, to the point of nausea...
...such purposes as economic planning and urban development, supersede the individual's right to privacy? In West Germany at least, the government has unwittingly undermined its case with less-than-convincing assurances that census information would be treated confidentially. Official credibility was certainly not helped by disclosures that Munich census takers would be paid a bonus of $1 for every unregistered German they turned up and $2 for each illegal alien...
After the Munich appeasement, Tuchman's worried father urged her to come home. Returning to New York, she worked with journalist Jay Allen, compiling a chronological record of the Spanish Civil War. The defeat of the Spanish Republic later that year, she wrote, was "the event that cracked my heart, politically speaking, and replaced my illusions with recognition of Real-politick; it was the beginning of adulthood...
Similarly, would it be too much to ask that Yasir Arafat, as the self-proclaimed prophet and dictator of the Palestinian movement, take responsibility for Sartawi's murder--or, for that matter, for the slaughter of Israeli athletes at Munich in 1972? Should Arafat be made to answer for the lives of innocent civilians he expended as convenient air cover during the battle of Beirut, by cunningly hiding his men among them in hospitals and apartment buildings? Unfortunately, as an unclected leader. Arafat is free to do as the pleases. But if the PLO continues to claim sole authority...