Word: westphalia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year Klaus Hildebrand, professor of Modern History at the University of Muenster in Westphalia, the Federal Republic of Germany, turned down an unofficial offer for the chair and three years ago Juan Linz, professor of Sociology at Yale, also turned down an offer...
...serious differences of opinion between the leaders of both parties, Schmidt and Hans-Dietrich Genscher (Foreign Affairs minister in the Bonn government). Further, the Free Liberals could strengthen their political influence as the state (lander) level if they joined with the Christian Democrats. In lander like Hesse and Rhine-Westphalia where the Free Liberals are in the minority, a coalition with the Christian Democrats would open the way for FDP administrative posts and increased political influence. Needless to say, Genscher has used this tempting possibility to blackmail the Social Democrats for greater FDP influence in the government coalition. Genscher...
...weeks party leaders in West Germany's ruling coalition had campaigned in the North Rhine-Westphalia state elections as if their claim to national power depended on it. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrats had slipped badly in seven previous state elections during the past year, and there were fears that the Tendenzwende (change in the trend) could snowball into a crushing defeat in next year's national elections...
Last week the Social Democrats and their coalition partner, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher's Free Democrats, turned the Tendenzwende around. In North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany's largest state (pop. 17 million) and industrial heartland, the Social Democrats and Free Democrats preserved their 105-to-95 seat edge over the opposition Christian Democratic Union. The same day, in elections in the Saarland, where Christian Democrats have ruled since 1947, the voters turned the C.D.U.'s 27-to-23 majority into a 25-to-25 deadlock. At week's end it was still unclear which party...
Voltaire's tale of innocence and catastrophe prances through the theater as if it were the wide, exuberantly evil world itself. Mark Baker's puppylike Candide and his beloved Cunegonde (Maureen Brennan) begin in the radiant sweetness of their Westphalia, instructed of course in Dr. Pangloss's invincible doctrine that this is the best of all possible worlds. What follows in Voltaire's gleeful vision is a string of unmitigated but somehow good-natured disasters-banishment, war, scourging, mass slaughter, piracy, the Spanish Inquisition, slavery, concubinage-until at last the wanderers come to El Dorado. Leading...