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Bookcellar Cafe. Bassist John Voigt and Debris perform at the Cafe on Thursday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. 1971 Mass Ave. Free...
Sports doctors and equipment engineers have struggled over the years to make football safer. Voigt Hodgson, a Wayne State University bioengineer, says helmet improvements have led to an 85% decrease in serious brain injury among all football players since 1958. Research by Dr. Joseph Torg, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Sports Medicine Center, led to rule changes in 1976 that banned "spearing," in which a player uses his helmet as a battering ram to tackle an opponent. Torg had shown that spearing was a leading cause of neck injuries (indeed, experts are debating whether Byrd accidentally speared...
...Karsten Voigt, a Social Democrat and a senior member of the Bundestag's Foreign Affairs Committee, says what is happening is a natural consequence of Germany's postwar development, and not something to be feared. "With the changes that have taken place, we have a stronger impact in whatever we do," he says. "It is not that we are being more assertive, but that even with continuity in our policies and behavior we have more influence. The apprehension felt by other countries will fade away in perhaps 10 or 15 years when people will see that a united Germany...
...barbed-wire fences and watchtowers. | Germany is reviewing security arrangements along the Polish frontier, while promising to speed up visa issuance for legitimate travelers. "The worry for Western Europe is not just that the reforms will fail and the region will slip into anarchy and chaos," says Karsten Voigt of Germany's Social Democratic Party. "Even if reforms succeed, it will mean thousands of factories closed down and millions out of work." The prospect is that a stream of political escapees will turn into a flood of economic refugees...
Although there was general agreement on the need to deploy the new NATO missiles on schedule, Karsten Voigt, West German Social Democratic Party spokesman for foreign and security affairs, suggested the possibility of postponement, even without a deal with the Soviets in Geneva. Voigt called the deterrent value of the Pershing II "greatly exaggerated" and said its mission could soon be taken over by conventional weapons. Joining in the challenge, Healey questioned the overall U.S. assessment of superpower balance. The U.S., Healey claimed, was well ahead in the number of warheads, and in any case, he noted, "I doubt that...