Word: volker
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...Americans talk enthusiastically of a special German-American relationship. The slogan "Partners in Leadership," which describes official U.S. policy toward Germany, touches a Europeanist nerve. "When one talks of leadership, one must think of the very successful system in the E.C., where every country has just one vote," says Volker Ruhe, general secretary of Kohl's Christian Democratic Union, who was named Defense Minister last week. "We don't like to lead from the front. We like to lead from the middle of the crowd...
...Coup de Grace--by director Volker Schlondorff at 8 p.m. in the Carpenter Center at 24 Quincy St. Admission is $5, $4 for students...
Such feelings did not exist, or were not visible, before unification, when all but the iron-minded leaders in the east accepted that the two German states were culturally one nation. "For 40 years we did not talk about differences, only about similarities," says Volker Ronge, a sociologist at the University of Wuppertal. "We were all Germans together, and we thought we would be able to understand each other perfectly. But now we realize that the influence of Western values here, and of Stalinism there, created differences that will last a long time...
...HANDMAID'S TALE. Set in a political and sexual dictatorship of the near future, this anti-fundamentalist fable carries a heady pedigree: screenplay by Harold Pinter from the Margaret Atwood novel. But a fine cast is zombified under Volker Schlondorff's drab direction...
After 7 1/2 hours of discussion, the conferees announced that they had agreed to invite the Poles to join in when the meetings focus on the Oder- Neisse line. In a belated attempt to reassure other Europeans who feel stampeded by the rush to unification, Volker Ruhe, general secretary of Kohl's Christian Democratic Union, said the process was so complex that it might take two to three years to complete. A single state would not be achieved, he said, "as long as the external questions are not settled...