Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much earlier than usual. Editors, writers, correspondents and researchers will all be working a stepped-up schedule designed to deliver next week's issue, and the final news of the campaign, before the polls close. The magazine that would normally be delivered the following week will go to press a day and a half after the election. It should reach a majority of readers before week...
President Johnson, too, was enigmatically encouraging at his press conference. He showed himself content to have helped get negotiations started by renouncing a second term and declaring a partial bombing halt. "I think the decision of March 31st was indicated, was justified," he said, "and I am more pleased by it every hour that goes by." If that meant the Paris negotiations would get serious any hour-or that an end to more than four years of U.S. bombing in North Viet Nam was imminent-he was not telling...
Soviet demands that he pack the Central Committee with conservatives, Dubcek rallied support for his progressives at grass-roots meetings. The press was still free enough to help, pinpointing and decrying meetings of "factionalist" conservatives, thus enabling Dubcek to counter their bid for popular support...
...succeeded in finding enough quislings to put together an alternative government. Dubcek was able to deny the most notorious collaborator, Alois Indra, the Interior Ministry, which the Soviets wanted for him. He nonetheless had to give Indra a Cabinet post, the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Economists still hoped to press on with planned reforms, and Dubcek promised that "we shall in no form return to the outlived bureaucratic-centralist methods of management." But the "workers' councils," designed to give labor a voice in management, were abruptly canceled last week, apparently as a concession to the Soviets...
...Federal Intelligence Service, Bonn's equivalent of the CIA, shot himself in his office. The government explanation: he was despondent over an "incurable depressive illness." On Oct. 15, a promising young official in the Economics Ministry hanged himself. On Oct. 16, a woman working in the Federal Press and Information Office took a fatal overdose of drugs. On Oct. 18, Bundeswehr Lieut. Colonel Johannes Grimm, 54, working in the Alarm and Mobilization Section of the Defense Ministry, shot himself. He, too, said the government, was despondent over an incurable disease. On Oct. 23, it was announced that a senior...