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...become increasingly adept at handling the spasms of angst about Germany. The immediate grievance was a statement by British Trade Minister Nicholas Ridley that the "uppity" Germans were plotting to take over Europe, and he would just as soon hand over the Continent to Hitler. What made the uproar worse was the widespread conviction that Ridley had only said what Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher thought. But Kohl wisely laughed off Ridley's remarks as "pretty silly," comparing them to his own gaffe about Gorbachev and Goebbels. Ridley was forced to resign...
Instead of abandoning his memoirs after the uproar over the TV film, Father redoubled his efforts. The authorities became aware of those efforts in the winter of 1967-1968. Brezhnev was greatly upset. How to make Father stop work on the project? Should they search his dacha and seize the tapes? That would trigger a scandal, leaving Brezhnev looking like a tyrant and Khrushchev a martyr. So what was to be done? The choice was to call Khrushchev in and persuade him to cease work on his memoirs and turn over what he had written to the Central Committee...
...denial of tenure to Alan Brinkley, a popular junior American history professor, caused a major campus uproar. Bok explained that he thought Brinkley's scholarship was not up to par, whether or not he was a popular teacher...
...less lucrative, magazine and book divisions run by Donald's older brother S.I. Jr., known as Si, the shadowy Newhouse style has been supplanted by a blaze of glitz and color and, increasingly, by tumult and frenzy. In recent years scarcely a month has gone by without an uproar at one or another of what has grown to 20 U.S. and 41 non-U.S. magazines, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, Details, HG and Self, every one of which has had one or more top editors ousted and design face-lifts imposed. At the Random House book-publishing...
...program has sparked an uproar because he declines to offer the same discounts to any non-Christians except Jews, whom Jackson said he includes because they believe in God. Even so, David Friedman, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, has urged Jackson to drop the program. Says he: "I want him to see there is something wrong in asking customers to declare their religious affiliation and to treat them differently according to that...