Word: nter
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...language, working with equal fluency from the French and the German. In the tiny maid's room that serves as his office, near the Luxembourg Gardens, Manheim has produced inventive English versions of some of Europe's most difficult writers, including Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Günter Grass. Manheim's most recent endeavor: a canny rendering of The Weight of the World, an elliptical memoir by Austrian Playwright Peter Handke...
Accompanying the small but significant accommodations are the stirrings of a diffuse kind of nationalism. One sign of such interest: for the past five months a book titled Where Germany Lies, written by Günter Gaus, 53, who served from 1974 to 1981 as West Germany's first diplomatic representative to East Germany, has been on the West German bestseller list. The attraction of Gaus' memoir seems to be its openly nostalgic quest for a lost sense of German national identity within the economically less advanced East. "People in the East kept what West Germans surrendered," Gaus...
Ever since West German Defense Minister Manfred Wörner announced last month that General Günter Kiessling, 58, had been dismissed from the Bundeswehr because of charges of homosexual activity, the case against the four-star general had been crumbling away like stale cake. Initially, Wörner grandly asserted that Kiessling had been mixing with "criminal elements" at seedy gay bars in Cologne for more than a decade and that this had left him open to blackmail. Kiessling, a bachelor, stoutly denied that he was homosexual or that he had ever visited the bars in question. Gradually...
From the moment West German Defense Minister Manfred Worner an nounced earlier this month that he had fired Four-Star General and Deputy Commander of NATO Günter Kiessling on charges of homosexuality, the issue has been troubling. Last week the case against the general was weakened considerably...
...deputy commanders. Bonn buzzed with rumors about why the alliance's high command harbored a security risk. West German Defense Minister Manfred Wörner last week ended the speculation, but added to the uproar. He asserted in a terse televised announcement that General Günter Kiessling, 58, was an active homosexual. In a letter to Kiessling's lawyer, which was not made public but was excerpted in some German newspapers, Wörner said that the general had been mixing with "criminal elements" at seedy gay bars in Cologne for at least a dozen years...