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...West Germany collected the matériel, erased all the U.S. markings, then sent it to a CIA installation near Stuttgart. There the mines were wrapped in special shock-absorbent material and packed in lightweight, waterproof, steel shipping boxes. The crates were stuffed with telephone wires and batteries; their contents were described as telephone equipment for a religious organization...
...Metall, the 2.6 million-member union of metalworkers, called 13,000 of its rank and file off the job in the Stuttgart area. The result was a shortage of critical parts in the important West German auto industry. By the end of the week the stoppages engulfed 69,000 more of the country's 680,000 auto workers. Sympathy strikes could touch banking, public transport, textiles, insurance companies and the postal service. Audi, the luxury-car unit of Volkswagen, could be forced to shut down in two cities this week. BMW, the Bavaria-based car and motorcycle maker...
Glass, 47, in recent years has become a leading opera composer through such works as Satyagraha (1980) and Akhnaten, which was premiered in Stuttgart in March. Glass describes Act V of the CIV IL warSas his "romantic" opera. The repetitive rhythms and melodic figurations that are his trademark are still present, but the score is suffused with an Italianate warmth and passion that explicitly recall Verdi in some passages. The most dramatic of these occurs when Garibaldi, who has been sitting in a box placidly viewing the action onstage, suddenly interrupts to deliver an aria about his life that...
...native of Stuttgart, Germany, the 32-year-old Nelson earned his A.B. at Cornell University, graduating summa cum laude in physics in 1972. Continuing at Cornell, he received his M.S. two years later, and his Ph.D. in 1975. Nelson first came to Harvard that same year, as a Junior Fellow in the prestigious Society of Fellows. He became a full professor of physics...
...southern Germany another 200,000 protesters were arriving by bus, train, car, bicycle and foot. There too a human chain was formed. This one connected Stuttgart's U.S. Military Command Headquarters with Wiley Barracks in Neu-Ulm some 65 miles away, where peace movement leaders believe that the first of the Pershing IIs will be deployed. In Hamburg, an estimated 100,000 West Germans stood in the city center to observe the requisite five minutes of silence before dispersing for an afternoon of speeches. Here too the demonstration was smaller than expected. A plan for blockading the River Elbe...