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Ever since Rolf Hochhuth's bitter drama The Deputy first appeared on the stage in 1963, there has been a nonstop debate over the explosive question raised by the German playwright: Could Pope Pius XII have done more to save six million European Jews from extermination during World War II? Six books have explored the thesis that by remaining silent he became an accomplice to genocide. The issue was even aired for almost two years in a Rome civil court, when American Author Robert Katz was accused of defaming the Pontiffs memory in Massacre in Rome, a 1973 film...
...Assistant Secretary of State Arthur Hartman and East German Diplomat Herbert Suss signed a four-page document formalizing relations. Rolf Sieber, 44, an economics professor with no previous diplomatic experience, was named East Germany's first Ambassador to the U.S., and John Sherman Cooper, 73, former Republican Senator from Kentucky and Ambassador to India and Nepal (1955-56), was chosen...
Most members of the economists' group concluded that there was cause to be deeply concerned-but not to be unalterably pessimistic. Recession can be avoided if the Arabs loosen the oil spigot and Europeans recover their confidence. Professor Rolf Krengel of West Berlin's Institute for Economic Research emphasizes: "The psychology is extremely important. If people believe there will be a recession and start cutting their expenditures so as to increase their savings, they will help to bring about the very thing they fear." A fear voiced by some American economists that a prolonged Arab oil squeeze would...
McDonald's has had some stumbles. It has expanded overseas with all the zeal of missionaries bringing hamburgers to the heathen.* "We are educating people to a whole new way of life-eating with your fingers instead of forks," says Rolf Kreiner, who directs McDonald's advertising in West Germany. Still, McDonald's European branches lost $1,000,000 last year, partly because too many were located in suburbs, which are not flourishing overseas quite as much as in the U.S. The company is now shifting abroad to downtown locations, where it is drawing big crowds...
Could this be opera? Or even anti-opera? State Opera Director Rolf Liebermann clearly thought it belonged in an opera house; he commissioned the piece, called Kyldex 1, as the 23rd and final new work to open under his imprimatur at Hamburg (he now moves to the Paris Opera). So did the man who created Kyldex, Parisian Kinetic Artist Nicolas Schöffer, 60, who spoke of his audiovisual creation as "a new step on the road toward communication and the socialization...