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...protesters, who sought to publicize their opposition to scheduled European deployment of U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles, the day was a triumph. The Frankfurter Rundschau (circ. 200,000) contended, "American soldiers on German soil were randomly beating, arresting and handcuffing demonstrators like criminals." The influential newsweekly Der Spiegel (circ. 970,000) said, "Soldiers, armed with bats and grim expressions, took the demonstrators, who did not put up any resistance, and threw them like cargo into army trucks...
...hard-core antimissile movement certainly represents a minority in the Federal Republic, and polls show that the German public is as uneasy about Soviet militarism as it is about missile deployment. But to a number of trend-setting and leftist-oriented journals, including the Frankfurter Rundschau, Spiegel and the picture weekly Stern (circ. 1.6 million), the missile antis are the only side worthy of full coverage. Beyond that, Stern and other periodicals repeatedly accuse the Reagan Administration of insincerity in its arms-reduction talks with the Soviet Union in Geneva, and of a readiness to use Europe as a battlefield...
...Spiegel of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov: "He has clearly engaged himself for peace...
...publications on the left enjoy exceptional prestige. Clearly the most powerful is Spiegel, though it is also widely disliked for its unpleasantly dogmatic style. Its founder and publisher, Rudolf Augstein, 59, stridently argues that U.S. and West German interests inevitably are in conflict, particularly on the reunification of Germany. The weekly is by West German standards an enterprising investigative publication, and its ideology has not kept it from publishing stories that embarrass the Social Democrats. Last year Spiegel exposed payoffs to politicians, including SPD leaders, in exchange for tax breaks for the giant Flick conglomerate. More important, Spiegel...
...part, the Protestant Church has been moved to respond to the concerns of West German youths. The large-circulation press has been unable to ignore the pressures of the counterculture movement. A regular diet of environmental coverage is now a feature of such major magazines as Stern and Der Spiegel. Both publications have come out strongly against the deployment of new NATO missiles, a position closer to that of the Greens than of the Social Democrats...