Word: ulm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1927, Eckstein to England in 1938, coming to the United States a year later. He graduated from Princeton in 1952, than began his 32-year stay at Harvard...
...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...
With large peace demonstrations expected to gain momentum next month, West German and U.S. officials fear that such violence could intensify. Some of the protests will focus on possible missile sites, such as Bitburg and Neu-Ulm, where relations between local residents and U.S. soldiers have generally been good. But confrontations might occur even in those places, especially if demonstrators block access to the bases. The West German Interior Ministry has warned, moreover, that terrorist attacks cannot be ruled out. U.S. and West German authorities have formed a joint committee to discuss preventive measures. "The thing we fear most," says...
...costs $60 million. Minnesota Transportation Commissioner Richard P. Braun contends that at present spending levels, the state will not be able to rebuild its 12,000 miles of trunk highways until the year 2354, at least three centuries too late. One 17-mile stretch of Highway 15 between New Ulm and Winthrop so angered a group of Minnesota motorists that they hired a hearse and jostled over the pitted surface with a sign declaring THIS HIGHWAY is DEAD AND BURIED. A state-commissioned study in Louisiana found the roads so rough that the average driver wastes $97 a year...
...meeting dissenting. As Archbishop Hickey has argued, the Catholic leaders fear a Communist takeover in El Salvador but nonetheless are against sending in U.S. arms. The bishops' rationale: the weapons will strengthen repressive elements in the security forces and, says Bishop Raymond A. Lucker of New Ulm, Minn., drive more and more people "into the hills and into the hands of the guerrillas." Says Auxiliary Bishop John E. McCarthy of Galveston-Hous-ton: "Those 22-year-old rebels are not risking their lives for the good of the Soviet Union or Cuba. They are risking their lives because they...