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...site also posted a copy of TIME's cover from Nov. 24, 2008, showing Obama as a contemporary Franklin D. Roosevelt, below which it placed a cartoon of Obama on the phone to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, saying, "Hi, Nicolas, how's your health?" The Dutch daily De Volkskrant noted that the change was a long time coming: "Where health care was until now a closed privilege, Obama and the Democrats have made it a law," read an article in the paper Monday. "One of the most important differences between America and other industrialized countries has finally been lifted...
...number of European papers, including Germany's Die Welt, Spain's El Periodico, the Netherlands' de Volkskrant and Italy's La Stampa, then responded by republishing the drawings in support of the principle of free expression. "I don't really understand the fuss," Die Welt editor Roger K?ppel, who ran one on his front page today, told German television. "Arabic television has shown beheadings and staged bestial rituals involving Jewish rabbis. We're seeing double standards at work here, and it's the job of journalists to expose them." Larry Kilman, communications director of the World Association of Newspapers, says...
...foreign reaction was more acerbic. The Amsterdam daily Volkskrant called Clark a nitwit. The Johannesburg Citizen labeled him the "Don't Know Man." Editorialized the London Daily Mirror: "America's allies in Europe-Europe, Mr. Clark, you must have heard of it -will hope he is never in charge at a time of crisis." Yet the Daily Mirror joked that Britain once had a Foreign Secretary who was "alleged to believe that Sodom and Gomorrah were sisters...
...past," grumbled Amsterdam's De Volkskrant, "the Dutch press was blamed-and not entirely without reason -for too long concealing the fact that there swarmed about the court people whose heads were too much in the clouds." The Dutch press could hardly be accused of concealing the facts last week. Once again, Queen Juliana's weakness for the preternatural had landed her back in the headlines: she had invited to the palace a crackpot from California who numbered among his friends men from Mars, Venus and other solar-system suburbs. Both court and Cabinet pleaded, but the Queen...
Many associated the lack of that leadership with Ike's reduced work schedule, and last week's stroke dashed their hopes that Ike was recovering his earlier vigor. "The leadership of the West," lamented De Volkskrant of Amsterdam, "is in the hands of a great but sick man who cannot accomplish much more than the purely representative duties of his office." Said a member of Germany's Bundestag: "Can a man who is fighting frailty of body avoid frailty of leadership...
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