Word: rhinelander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...based, respectable middle-class party that hard ly ever mentions Marx. Alone or in coalition, Socialists now rule five of West Germany's eleven states and 48 of the nation's biggest cities. In Septem ber they scored impressive gains in local elections in the Saar and Rhineland, whose formerly hostile Catholic populations know that the "new" Socialists have abandoned their attacks on the church. The latest national public opin ion poll gives the Socialists a 7% lead over the ruling Christian Democrats...
Many died for their religious beliefs. Paul Schneider, a Rhineland Protestant pastor who was several times imprisoned for ridiculing the Nazis and collecting money for the Jews, was finally tortured to death in a cell from which he was made to watch the execution of prisoners outside. Each time a man was shot, Schneider's voice thundered over the parade ground: "I have seen this! And I will accuse you of murder before God's judgment seat...
...government ministries are strung miles apart in makeshift, inadequate buildings that range from a pre-empted hotel, where each office has a private bath, to a converted Wehrmacht barracks. Embassies are scattered from Cologne, 18 miles north of Bonn, to Rolandseck, ten miles south in the neighboring state of Rhineland Palatinate, where the Russians have taken over an old resort hotel. Chilean diplomats must work above the din of a five-and-dime store on the floor be low; the small, ugly British chancellery is smack in the middle of a cornfield, across the street from a Coca-Cola plant...
Adams developed his toughness the hard way. In World War II, he helped direct the Ranger tactics of the First Special Service Force in the Aleutian Islands and Italy, also served in hot spots from Anzio and Ardennes-Alsace to the Rhineland and central Germany. In the Korean war, he ended up as Eighth Army Commander Maxwell Taylor's chief of staff. He directed U.S. Army and Marine forces in the landings in Lebanon in 1958. Last fall he was the key commander in the huge "Operation Big Lift" that sent 15,377 men and 445 tons of combat...
...constantly (he has spent only seven months of the past two years at his office), making arrangements with local teachers and principals, talking to education ministries. He made 272 trips over the short road to the state capital at Mainz to close an agreement with the Rhineland-Palatinate authorities...