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...judges to enforce property rights of landlords, raided a squatters' building in Kreuzberg. Violent protests flared. Three consecutive weekends of street battles left 150 demonstrators and 100 police injured and caused $500,000 in damage. Similar disorders suddenly flared in other European cities, most notably Amsterdam and Zurich. The squatters put much of the blame on local housing authorities for an inability to cope with social change-not only population increases and the influx of foreign workers but such variables as more divorces, which create double housing requirements...
...research or commerce. Others include the fusion of cells, DNA synthesis and the creation of hybridomas, long-lived cells that are designed to produce pure antibodies for use against disease. But of all these marvels, it is gene splicing that scientists consider the most exciting. Says the University of Zurich's Charles Weissmann, 50, who last year became the first scientist to make bacteria produce a facsimile of human interferon: "Biology has become as unthinkable without gene-splicing techniques as sending an explorer into the jungle without a compass...
...reports that I've seen since the aborted rescue mission in April have said that eight servicemen died in the attempt. However, in your photograph of the arrival of the bodies at the Zurich airport [Jan. 26], nine caskets are lying on the tarmac. Did you use the wrong photo? Was there actually a ninth casualty...
...used to reading how the Dadaists in Zurich during World War I struck alarm into the hearts of the Swiss burghers with their antic cabaret turns in the Café Voltaire, their sound-poems and chance-collages. But their real impact on Zurich was negligible, scarcely a ruffle on the lake, in contrast to the importance that the Dada wood reliefs of Jean Arp have since assumed within the history of art. Even when Dada was politicized after the war, its actual effect on German politics was nil, and its impact on radical thought probably much smaller than the modernist...
...three-year low of 2.16 to the dollar, forcing the West German Bundesbank and the U.S. Federal Reserve into an unusual rescue mission of the mark. The two central banks each sold $500 million in dollars at midweek to prop up the weakening West German currency. In Zurich, the Swiss franc dropped into a two-year trough of 1.95 to the dollar, and in Milan the Italian lira plunged to a record low of 1,019 against the dollar. At the same time, the declining value of gold pushed bullion to $500.50 an ounce at week...