Word: volker
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...TERRORISM, POLITICS, PROTEST. In association with Boston’s Goethe Institut Inter Nationes, the Film Archive is presenting a series of films influenced by the Red Army Faction’s (RAF) 1977 wave of terrorism in West Germany. Included in the series are The Legends of Rita, Volker Schlondorffs acclaimed 1999 film about a terrorist forced into hiding when her organization crumbles, and Marianne and Julianne, Margarethe von Trotta’s 1981 examination of the bond between two sisters—one of them an imprisoned revolutionary—during the time of the terrorism. Friday, April...
...some of his scouts arrived and brought out the survivors. One journalist, Johanne Sutton, was shot multiple times in the leg and chest, and she died before they could get her to the clinic in Dashti Qala, which is about 3 miles away from the frontline. Two other journalists - Volker and Pierre Billaud of RTL Radio - had been left behind. According to an Afghan interpreter who was with them, they were injured and so they could not run to catch up with the APC once they fell off. Their bodies - and one body of an NA soldier who was also...
...hole [cover] - it was kind of a running firefight." By now it was dark, and the journalists could see tracers streaming through the air in their direction. "There was lots of incoming, the driver was going straight down a steep hill, looking for a hole [cover]. The German [Volker Handloik, a photographer for the German magazine Stern] fell and rolled, there were people falling off the APC at the back. I did not see much as I was on the front, holding on to a cannon...
...autumn 1992, Atta enrolled at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, in a sleepy corner of northern Germany. He hoped to earn a degree in urban planning and then return to Egypt. In 1993, he befriended fellow student Volker Hauth, and the two often traveled and studied together in the next few years. Hauth liked Atta but sensed a rigidity in his friend. "I knew Mohamed as a guy searching for justice," Hauth told the Los Angeles Times. "He felt offended by this broad wrong direction the world was taking...
...Senior Lori Volker, an outfielder whose speed can be an asset on both defense and offense, looks promising for the Tigers this year. If senior Lauren Poniatowski, who led the team with a .301 batting average last season, can come back for another strong offensive year, the Tigers have a good shot at improving on their 6-6 Ivy record...