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...last-minute effort to avert a crisis, West German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger summoned Soviet Ambassador Semyon Tsarapkin for an extraordinary 2½-hour session at the Palais Schaumburg, but failed to find a solution. After an emergency session of the West Berlin Senate, Mayor Klaus Schütz appealed to West Berliners to remain calm. They were bracing for what many of them expected might develop into the severest threat to the city's economic viability since 1961, when former Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened to turn over the responsibility for West Berlin's access routes to the East...
...cried: "Millions were murdered-and now a sentence like this!" As Rehse, his greying head raised high, tried to walk from the room, an elderly man slapped his face and cried: "Shame, you blood judge, for all the victims you have on your conscience!" Berlin Mayor Klaus Schütz called the decision "outrageous." Robert Kempner, a former U.S. deputy chief of counsel at the Nürnberg Trials, who now lives in Frankfurt, described the ruling as "the greatest setback of German justice since 1945." For once, the New Left and the right-wing press of Axel Springer found...
...crowd ten times larger than the students had been able to assemble. They brought homemade placards, shouted encouragement to the U.S. and set fire to Communist flags. Some incensed demonstrators even assaulted a score of hapless hippies. "We won't let our free Berlin be trampled," Schütz told the crowd. "We fight back...
Alarmed by "the escalation of emotions," a group of prominent Berlin churchmen published an open letter to their fellow citizens, urging everyone to cool down. Their pleas are being ignored. Schütz's own Social Democratic Party is on the point of expelling its left wing, some of whose members took part in the student march. With widespread popular support, right-wing politicians of all parties have begun a campaign to ban the radical student organizations and expel their leaders from the city-an action that would only drive the leftists underground. Even more ominous, the extreme right...
...specific assignment of wooing a highly placed Foreign Office employee; Leonore turned out to be his pigeon. When her police questioners told her why her husband had married her, it was more than she could take. She hanged herself in her cell at Cologne's Klingelpütz prison...