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...their own minds that the line between reality and fiction repeatedly blurs and disappears. The characters are so lost in their dreams and remembrances that it's often hard to tell whether the narration is remembers or hallucinated. In the first story of the collection. "The Schreuderspitz," a Bavarian photographer who takes refuge from his grief by living in a village in the Alps and training himself for a soul restoring assault on the most dangerous face of a great mountain finds himself living half in and half out of his dreams...
...final tally of 38.2 million votes showed that Schmidt's coalition of his own S.P.D. and the Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.) won 53.8%, a gain of more than 3% compared with the 1976 election. The conservative coalition of the C.D.U. and the Bavarian-based Christian Social Union (C.S.U.) fell to 44.5%, a drop of more than 4%. Schmidt thus quadrupled his majority in the Bundestag to a more-than-comfortable 45 seats. The new lineup in the 497-seat lower house will give the S.P.D. 218 seats, the F.D.P. 53 and the C.D.U.-C.S.U...
...wonder. The alliance dropped from 48.6% of the popular vote to 44.5%, and lost 17 seats in the Bundestag. Though Conservative Challenger Franz Joseph Strauss insisted that he might try again in the future, many party regulars were convinced that they had probably seen the 65-year-old Bavarian politician's last hurrah as a candidate for Chancellor. "Yes, I made mistakes," Strauss acknowledged last week. "There is only one German political figure who thinks he never made a mistake: Helmut Schmidt...
Strauss, slicing a salami labeled Freedom Another poster shows Strauss as a butcher (he is a butcher's son), sharpening knife under the caption, "Castrate all libertines." West German courts have outlawed a caricature of the burly Bavarian with a machine gun, and the caption line, "Strauss, the Hitler of today." Strauss is reportedly ready to bring defamation charges against a rock group for a song that contains the ugly refrain: "Franz Josef the pig, Franz Josef the old pig, Franz Josef the lusting swine." When a local prosecutor charged that the song was insulting to Strauss, the band...
...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...