Word: willi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even some of last week's moves were ambiguous. The mass resignation of the 44-member Cabinet was not so significant as it was dramatic, since the Cabinet had been a rubber stamp. Its dismissal, however, did serve to rid Krenz of Premier Willi Stoph, a Honecker loyalist. The dissolution of the 21-member Politburo, and its replacement with a slimmer ten-member body, was far more pointed, since that is where the real power lies. Some of its more notorious hard-liners got the ax, including Stoph; Erich Mielke, head of the despised state security apparatus; and Kurt Hager...
...Cabinet, led by 75-year-old Premier Willi Stoph, resigned jointly yesterday. The body has little power and implements policy made by the Politburo. Stoph and several other ministers also are Politburo members...
...roll call is heartbreaking. Broadway's top musical showman, Michael Bennett, dead last month at 44. Manhattan Art Dealer Xavier Fourcade, 60. Fashion Designers Willi Smith, 39, and Perry Ellis, 46. Makeup Artist Way Bandy, 45. Charles Ward, 33, who left the American Ballet Theater to go Dancin' on Broadway. Production Designer Bruce Weintraub (Prizzi's Honor), 33. Allan Estes, 29, founder of San Francisco's Theater Rhinoceros. An appalling 27 deaths in the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. To list them and their dying or dead brothers is to compile a journal of the plague years...
...artists' friends comfort the afflicted. Manhattan Gallery Owner Holly Solomon knows dozens of AIDS victims. "One night this April," she recalls, "I went to Willi Smith's memorial. Then to Fourcade's funeral on Friday morning. That same week Tucker Ashworth ((p.r. chief for the city planning commission)) became very, very ill. At his home I held him in my arms and tried to console him. He died about a month later." The disease infects her business as well. "One day a woman called me to sell paintings her son had collected. He died when he was 31; she couldn...
...current turmoil in South Korea carefully. Says George Miller, executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee, who is worried about the future safety of his athletes: "We're not yet at the hand-wringing stage. But anytime there are disruptions in a country, naturally there are levels of concern." Willi Daume, a West German I.O.C. member who presided over the 1972 Munich Games, thinks that removing the Olympics from Seoul at this stage could even heat up the deteriorating situation in South Korea. On the other hand, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley last week offered his city, site...