Word: neu
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...southern Germany another 200,000 protesters were arriving by bus, train, car, bicycle and foot. There too a human chain was formed. This one connected Stuttgart's U.S. Military Command Headquarters with Wiley Barracks in Neu-Ulm some 65 miles away, where peace movement leaders believe that the first of the Pershing IIs will be deployed. In Hamburg, an estimated 100,000 West Germans stood in the city center to observe the requisite five minutes of silence before dispersing for an afternoon of speeches. Here too the demonstration was smaller than expected. A plan for blockading the River Elbe...
With large peace demonstrations expected to gain momentum next month, West German and U.S. officials fear that such violence could intensify. Some of the protests will focus on possible missile sites, such as Bitburg and Neu-Ulm, where relations between local residents and U.S. soldiers have generally been good. But confrontations might occur even in those places, especially if demonstrators block access to the bases. The West German Interior Ministry has warned, moreover, that terrorist attacks cannot be ruled out. U.S. and West German authorities have formed a joint committee to discuss preventive measures. "The thing we fear most," says...