Word: sautter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...communists. With the eastern state of Saxony due to vote Sunday, the party is bracing for more bad news, and resistance to Schroeder?s leadership is mounting. "Schroeder?s reforms are drastic, even compared with the conservative Christian Democratic government that preceded him," says TIME Bonn correspondent Ursula Sautter. "The Christian Democrats could never have tried to do what the Social Democrats are attempting now ?- they?re hardly criticizing his welfare plan because they know it needs to be done, and they tried to do it themselves, although a lot more slowly...
...Germany is well to the left of its American equivalent - even conservative governments have traditionally maintained a level of welfare provision that would make Ted Kennedy blush. "Social Democratic supporters have been shocked by Schroeder?s plans, because they?re so unlike the party?s traditional policies," says Sautter. And while Clinton?s policies were put before the voters at two-year intervals, an ongoing series of state and regional elections has provided an ongoing referendum on Schroeder?s. "This series of elections in quick succession is creating a snowballing rejection of Schroeder?s policies," says Sautter. And sooner than...
...special tribute to the estimated 12,500 gay men who died after being sent to the camps because of their sexual orientation. "Germany has waited this long to acknowledge the gay victims of Nazism because public acceptance of homosexuality has been slow in coming," says TIME Bonn correspondent Ursula Sautter. "The law that prevailed in the Nazi era outlawing homosexuality was only formally repealed...
...inclusion of gay victims in ceremonies marking the country's fourth annual Holocaust Memorial day reflects a generational shift in German society. "Those in power today came of age during the radical protests of 1968," says Sautter. "They're more relaxed about acknowledging and discussing the Holocaust, compared with the earlier generation who were riddled with guilt and shame. Opening up these issues has been a lot healthier for Germany...
...Turkey's hot potato, however, doesn't get any cooler in Germany -- which is home to 2.2 million Turks and 600,000 Kurds. "Germany is reluctant to extradite Ocalan because it doesn't want to import Turkey's war," says TIME Bonn correspondent Ursula Sautter. "Ocalan's movement has always had a foothold in the Kurdish community here, and there's good reason to suspect there would be trouble if he were put on trial here." If Ocalan becomes a defendant without a courtroom, it will be an ironic echo of his followers' claim to be a people without...