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Since the shadowy Black September organization was born 2½ years ago, it has enjoyed the financial support of several major Arab nations and the moral support of many. Even after Black Septembrists killed eleven Israelis at the Munich Olympics last summer, countries such as Saudi Arabia and Libya continued to bankroll the movement. Indeed, the murderers of Munich were hailed as heroes in rabidly anti-Israel Arab capitals like Tripoli. But nobody seemed eager last week to honor the killers of Khartoum...
Barbie was half-forgotten until 1971, when a Munich court handling litigation by some of Barbie's victims finally decided that it could take no action in the case. That aroused the ire of Beate Klarsfeld, then 32, a Berlin-born Protestant who had married a French Jew. "I don't wish to be ashamed of my people," she said. "It is my duty not to allow war criminals to be considered as fine upstanding citizens." Mrs. Klarsfeld held press conferences, organized demonstrations, circulated photographs and generally made such a fuss that she finally got a letter from...
...Western Europe, the 20th century versions of the Renaissance wandering scholars can be found any morning, boarding Caravelles or Boeing 727s at Munich or Orly, Heathrow or Schiphol. These are the dark-suited businessmen and technocrats, many in their late 30s or early 40s, who serve the border-hopping new multinational corporations. Clutching identical document cases, conversing in any one of several languages-including English, the new Europe's universal medium-these passengers are often indistinguishable by nationality even when they reach for the newspapers being passed around by stewardesses...
...multilingual, polymathic scholar. Last week TIME correspondents discussed the world of arts and ideas with two of Europe's leading intellectuals: Dr. George Steiner, a French-born American thinker who is currently a fellow of Cambridge's Churchill College; and Dr. Joachim Kaiser, principal critic for Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung...
Kaiser concludes that "as a cultural whole, Europe does not exist." In fact, he feels that there is considerably more intellectual continuity between New York today and the Berlin of old, for instance, than between Munich and Florence. "I was in Florence yesterday," he said, "and I really had the feeling of being on another continent." If ever there is to be a common culture for Europe, he believes that it will be the result of cross-fertilization from the Anglo-American orbit-not so much in art or literature as in lifestyles. "These influences range from the habit...