Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Jesse Birnbaum, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Ellis Cose, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias, Denise Worrell...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Jesse Birnbaum, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Ellis Cose, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias, Denise Worrell...
...telephoned that evening by one of my political friends, then the second secretary of the district Helmut Hackenberg, who was in charge of the action. He informed me that several local personalities, including three secretaries of the party, had joined Gewandhaus Orchestra director Kurt Masur in a public appeal against the use of violence. Although I was not empowered to do so by the office I held at the time, I told my political friends that their appeal was correct, and I encouraged them to act in such a way that everything would end without the use of force...
...Many voters just thought of the opening of the Berlin Wall. They thought, 'O.K., we can get rid of arms because there's no danger,' " suggests Kurt Spillmann, a professor at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. But the willingness of so many Swiss to vote, in effect, against the army indicates a disaffection that would once have been unimaginable...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Jesse Birnbaum, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Ellis Cose, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias, Denise Worrell...