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They found his body in his cell early one morning last week. Heinrich Lembke, 44, a forester and a dedicated neo-Nazi, had hanged himself with a radio cord. He had been arrested when police found drawings in his home leading to arms that were buried around his property near Hamburg. But before he committed suicide, Lembke told authorities of an arsenal of weapons, some 90 crates of hand grenades, guns, ammunition, plus poison, that was concealed at 33 sites throughout the countryside. The discoveries, the largest of their kind in West German history, were alarming evidence of a rising...
...rose from 616 in 1977 to 1,533 in 1980, including seven attacks on immigrants' hostels and the explosion of a bomb in a crowded outdoor area during Munich's Oktoberfest, an annual rite of autumn, that killed 13 and injured 221. In Munich last month, two neo-Nazi suspects were killed, one was injured and two more arrested after a Shootout with police who had stopped a car loaded with weapons...
...David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy at MIT, predicted a period of difficult transition for universities over the next fifteen years with a decline in the student population and an increasingly "neo-military" political atmosphere throughout the country...
...misses much of the old man's influence, and his indictment of Louis Kahn rings a bit hollow. Furthermore, he misses the point of the renewed interest in classicism, exemplified by Phillip Johnson's plans for the still-incomplete AT&T building in New York City. Wolfe views the neo-classicism merely as Gropius in Roman ropes, when it may reflect more deeply the wide dissatisfaction with the glass...
...mood is shifting, then most likely the organization will quickly scurry to the right. Increasingly, Brattle St. voters seem more worried about issues that affect them--tax assessments are the prime example--than about issues that affect others--rent control, for instance. And it seems inevitable that if conservatism, neo or otherwise, becomes more popular at Harvard and other local breeding grounds of intellectual fashion, then conservatism will eventually trickle down to the local level, just as the radicalism of the late '60s influenced the members of the city council...