Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Teutonic obsession with internal security has raised concern about the "Ugly German" on occasion. Throughout its largely successful campaign against the wave of terrorism by the notorious Red Army Faction, the .A federal government re frained from overreacting and jeopardizing civil liberties. During the whole period, Schmidt acted coolly...
...when he can relax at home with his wife of 36 years, "Loki." Their modest residence, situated on the Rhine within sight of the I Chancellery, is furnished in modern-functional style and decorated with expressionist and impressionist paintings. Bookcases are filled with volumes on history and economics. Schmidt occasionally relaxes with a mystery story, preferably by Agatha Christie, plays Bach or Mozart on a large electric organ, or challenges his wife at chess and double solitaire. He hates to lose at chess, as well as politics; when he does, he is apt to rail at his own "stupidity...
What can Harvard University do about South Africa? Read President Bok's open letters on the subject. Though written for a particular occasion, these letters rise above it because they contain the most thoughtful statement of a university's relationship with society which has appeared in America in the last...
The fund drive efforts, however, will be "low-key." "Last year, they had 60 members who spent all four days going after money. There will be nothing like that this year," Abrams said. "This reunion is an occasion for all of us to relax and enjoy ourselves with a minimum...
It was thus with a sense of urgency that many of the leading opponents of capital punishment assembled in Florida last week to stage a last-minute campaign for the hapless Spenkelink. Henry Schwarzschild of the American Civil Liberties Union warned of a "constitutional, legal and political disaster that will...