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Heidemann joined Stern in 1951, just three years after it was founded. A photographer turned self-styled investigative reporter, Heidemann found the reclusive mystery writer B. Traven (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) in Mexico and former Gestapo Official Klaus Barbie in Bolivia. But he is far from a star in Hamburg, West Germany's de facto journalistic capital. Says one fellow reporter: "He is a perfectly ordinary reporter, perhaps a little gullible but otherwise bland." Heidemann has one colorful trait: a passion for Nazi memorabilia. He sold his house in Hamburg a decade ago to buy a yacht...
Other opponents of nuclear power regarded the ruling as a potent new weapon. "The decision is another nail in the coffin of nuclear power," declared Michael Paparian, a lobbyist for the Sierra Club, an environmental organization. "The ruling," said Jerry Brown, who was Governor of California when the moratorium was passed, "further strengthens the power of the states to regulate their own economic destiny...
...births were a triumph for a controversial program that has had conservationists pecking furiously at each other. Over the protests of the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and other environmental groups that oppose any human intercession while the condors fight for survival, scientists from the National Audubon Society and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service entered the birds' habitat in California's Los Padres National Forest last February and March. They snatched two fertilized eggs from two roosts and transferred them to incubators at the zoo. The eggnaping, the scientists hoped, would protect the embryos against tumbles...
There were other constituencies to tend to as well. At the British Home in Sierra Madre, a retirement camp for expatriates, the Queen tramped from stucco bungalow to bungalow, pleasing the 38 residents almost unbearably. The oldest, Sybil Jones-Bateman, 97, gave Her Majesty a homemade tea cozy and a collectively sewn quilt for the infant Prince William...
...walls are covered with red, black and yellow T-shirts reading "I hate the Capitalist system" and "Question Authority." Calendars entitled "Women Working" and "Human Rights"--rather than the standard Garfield, Ziggy and Sierra Club brands--fill the shelves. Pamphlets and fliers for forums on Women's Rights, Gay Liberation, and anti-draft colloquiums spill over all available counter space. This is no ordinary book store...