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...they had combined with rightist parties, they would have had 52% of the votes; instead, they turned left to the Socialists. Two things held the marriage together: 1) the fact that the Christian Democrats contain virtually the entire spectrum from left to right within their own ranks, and 2) the Christian Democrats' threat to dissolve the coalition and form a center-right government if the Socialists pressed too hard...
...threat to Berlin's life. Last week, after three years in which its lifeline went largely unchallenged, West Berlin was once more threatened by an attempt to limit its contact with the West. East Germany announced that it would not allow members of West Germany's rightist National Democratic Party, or other "neo-Nazis," to travel through East Germany to Berlin...
Died. Deendayal Upadhyaya, 50, newly elected leader of India's rightist Jana Sangh Party (see THE WORLD...
Looking for Blood. In response, clandestine bands of rightist terrorists went looking for blood. One night they carried off a 26-year-old former beauty queen who was proud of her left-wing sympathies, raped her and beat her to death with rifle butts. Vowing to avenge her murder, leftist terrorists drove up to the home of a Guatemalan army colonel early last week and machine-gunned one of his guards. The next day a leftist lawyer was gunned down with his bodyguard, and a right-wing politician was shot in front of his home. A few hours later, Webber...
Organized three years ago from a collection of ragtag rightist groups, the N.D.P. has in the past 14 months scored impressive gains. In six state-level elections, it has attracted 6% to 9% of the vote, captured a total of 1.5 million ballots and won 49 seats in the various legislatures. If that trend holds until the 1969 elections, the National Democrats not only will replace the fading Free Democrats as Germany's third party but also will place 40 and perhaps more delegates in the Bonn Bundestag...