Word: stern
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...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...
Almost as influential as Spiegel on the left is Stern, which is both the most widely read of West Germany's four major pictorial magazines and the only one with serious, if erratic, journalistic ambitions. Stern was thrust into international notoriety in April as the publisher and purveyor of forged diaries purportedly written by Adolf Hitler. The diaries fiasco, which led to the ouster of two top editors, has cost the magazine about 10% of its circulation, an estimated $3.8 million in circulation and advertising income, and much of its credibility among fellow reporters...
Although the staff viewed the mismanagement of the diaries affair as a reason to claim greater control of the magazine's content, the Stern management installed a more conservative and prudent editor, Peter Scholl-Latour, a former television commentator. Says he: "We have readers who are not as far left as is sometimes thought. I do not want to bore them with too much ideology." Scholl-Latour describes the antimissile movement as "a fashionable tendency," and his view is having an impact. Though the magazine continues to report on the movement enthusiastically, an Aug. 4 cover showed a hand...
Although election day was peaceful, nearly 100 people died in political violence during the six-month campaign. Shagari took a stern line on law and order. He did not allow the army to supervise polling stations, as it had done in 1979, but troops were deployed at checkpoints in troubled areas. Still, there were charges of voting irregularities...
...managed to climb back onto the vessel and, expecting to die, changed into his best suit. Then he huddled on the stern, trapped between towering flames and the cold sea. At last, four hours later, a rescue-helicopter pilot spotted Vea through the smoke and flew within ten yards of the burning deck to winch him to safety. Vea described his ordeal as "uncomfortably hot." Thirty-two other crew members were safely taken from lifeboats by a trawler; three men are presumed dead...