Word: regensburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever questioned his intelligence, though. As a Wunderkind theology professor, he raced through appointments at five German universities and at 42 became deputy president of Regensburg. He is abstemious, hardworking, and as archbishop has earned a reputation for aloofness from his people but persuasiveness in his oratory. In 1980 the Pope assigned him to prepare the major reports for the International Synod of Bishops...
...streets, occasionally roughing up people caught defacing their champion's posters with Hitler mustaches and other graffiti. After Film Director Werner Schroeter reportedly suggested that someone should feed Strauss a bomb disguised as a sausage, the city of Augsburg withdrew his commission to stage an opera there. In Regensburg and Munich, some factory workers have been fired for wearing anti-Strauss buttons. An 18-year-old schoolgirl in Regensburg was expelled for refusing to take off her "Stop Strauss" button. Meanwhile, pens emblazoned with Strauss's party emblem were handed out in another Bavarian school-without protest...