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Many KOR leaders, like Sociologist Jacek Kuron, are former Marxist intellectuals who oppose the present police state and call instead for a more democratic, decentralized brand of socialism. An advocate of organized resistance rather than violence, Kuron nonetheless warned in the West German newspaper Die Welt last week: "The way things are going now, sooner or later there will be an explosion, the consequences of which will be a national tragedy...
...ISLANDERS v. BUFFALO: By the time it ended, Bob Lorimer had a gash over his right eye, Terry O'Reilly a purple welt under his; Bob Nystrom still wondered where his contact lens went and vowed to avenge Brad McCrimmon for a scratched cornea. No, the face-smacking, bone-crunching, degrading, "If you can't beat 'em in the alley beat 'em three out of four at Boston Garden," generally nasty, brutish and protracted quarterfinal Thermopylae betwixt the New York Islanders and the Boston Bruins was not a good series for eyes...
...resulting "sexism trial" has titillated West Germany for weeks. The daily newspaper Die Welt polled readers on what they thought of Stern's cover. Said Actress Elke Sommer, 36: "I'm ashamed when the photos are almost obscene, but we live in a free country." Insults flew between the chief complainant and editor of Emma magazine, Alice Schwarzer, 35, ("Male perfidy," said she), and Stern Editor Henri Nannen, 64, ("Joyless gray skirts," said he). During one session in a Hamburg court, Nannen stirred a row when he whisked out huge cheesecake photos of two of the plaintiffs, one showing Actress...
What mountains labored to bring forth such a ridiculous molehill!" complained Bonn's respected daily Die Welt. "A piecemeal approach that cannot work," sniffed the foreign currency chief of France's largest private bank. Such was the curt reaction in money centers last week to a widely ballyhooed U.S.-West German agreement that will give Washington more ammunition, in the form of borrowed deutsche marks, to use in defending the battered dollar. But unfortunately, the greenback fell once again in all major currency markets...
...film clips of the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Using his book's conclusions as a base, Fest set out to make a movie that would explore how an obscure Austrian postcard artist could win power and put it to such evil purposes. As the newspaper Die Welt noted in its review of the movie, "The incapability of many parents, teachers and publishers to explain the phenomenon of Hitler has [often] been expressed only in general judgments or in total silence...