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...advocates of this theory are Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and Harvard Professor Martin Feldstein, who was chairman of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers until he resigned last summer. Their views are widely shared in Western Europe. Wrote former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in the newspaper Die Zeit last week: "The astounding recovery of (Reagan's) economy over the past 24 months and his view of the economic future rest largely on other people's money...
...animosities within the P.L.O. were tragically reflected last week in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. On Wednesday, pro-Arafat and anti-Arafat Palestinian students held noisy rallies at Bir Zeit University, northeast of Jerusalem. After the demonstration, some of the students began stoning cars; Israeli soldiers pushed the students back onto the campus. The Palestinians threw rocks at the Israelis, who responded with tear gas. An Israeli army spokesman said that the soldiers had to fire to "extricate themselves" from the crowd, but a television clip showed one soldier at the head of a squad approach...
Also on the left are Frankfurter Rundschau, Die Zeit, a majority of reporters and commentators on West Germany's two major television networks, and many of the staff correspondents of the leading wire service, Deutsche Presse-Agentur. Left of center, but less partisan, is the Suddeutsche Zeitung (circ. 310,000), based in Munich, which spurns ideological zeal and is Germany's nearest equivalent to an independent centrist paper...
...announcement, Hebron's merchants rolled down the iron shutters in front of their shops, and the streets were soon deserted. But violent demonstrations broke out elsewhere in the West Bank. In Nablus, a young Arab woman was killed when protesters clashed with Israeli soldiers. At Bir Zeit University, Israeli troops fired tear gas canisters, plastic bullets and finally real ammunition at 300 rock-throwing Arab students, wounding four. As Palestinian leaders in the West Bank called for a three-day general strike, Jews and Arabs alike feared that the Hebron killings would set off a new cycle of violence...
...West Germany, leading journalists belittled Stern. Said Lothar Loewe, director of West Berlin's TV station SFB: "The whole affair is the result of checkbook journalism, of which Stern is the worst offender." In a front-page editorial in Hamburg's prestigious weekly newspaper Die Zeit, Editor Theo Sommer said, "When lightweights are combined with heavy money, the controlling responsibilities in journalism are easily lost...