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...backbone of Ojukwu's military resistance is a small group of white mercenaries commanded by Colonel Rolf Steiner, a 38-year-old former Foreign Legion sergeant who fought in Indo-China and Algeria. His ability to make the most of Biafra's minimal military resources has moved him steadily upward in rank and power since he signed on last December. When news of the federal onslaught reached Ojukwu, he hurried to Steiner's headquarters in an abandoned nunnery in Owerri...
Churchill hunting is in season. Rolf Hochhuth's play Soldiers accused Winnie of conniving to kill off a troublesome ally, and of provoking air raids on Britain so that he could retaliate with mass bombings on German cities (TIME, May 10). Now Author Thompson, a British journalist turned war historian, says that Churchill, to save his own skin, fashioned a hero out of a so-so soldier named Bernard Law Montgomery. This will be news to those who have always felt that Field Marshal Montgomery alone was responsible for that singular achievement...
Germany's Rolf Hochhuth is a demon researcher, an addicted player of the blame game, and a member of the lapel-grabbing school of play writing. In The Deputy, he buttonholed playgoers to blame Pope Pius XII for not having protested the murder of 6,000,000 Jews. In Soldiers, he is again peremptorily grabbing the audience's lapels to argue that Churchill connived at the murder of General Wladyslaw Sikorski, head of the Polish government in exile, in order to placate Stalin...
Manager Rudolf Bing turned it down, even after Austrian Chancellor Josef Klaus personally urged him to accept. The New York Philharmonic's Leonard Bernstein and Cleveland's George Szell were approached, but said no thanks. The Hamburg Opera's Rolf Liebermann declined an offer, and feelers were rejected by former Edinburgh Festival Director Lord Harewood and the West Berlin Opera's Egon Seetehlner...
...than 200 volunteers into decentralized units in the Houses, the Yard, and 13 Graduate departments. These workers canvassed the entire senior class and held several small sessions in draft counseling. And, as a show of strength, the Union collected more than 1150 signatures on a petition in support of Rolf Kolden, a teaching fellow in Government, who was planning to refuse induction...