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...York, Senior Editor Edward Jamieson had a team equally bristling with expertise. Texas-born Writer David Tinnin spent four years studying history and philosophy at Heidelberg University. When he left Germany in 1953, he took away several all-German sports awards for his track ability-and a German wife. Researcher Ingrid Krosch grew up in New York with her German parents, knows Germany well. Researcher Mary McConachie worked for three years on a British Foreign Office project on postwar Germany...
...Bundestag, he won posts on key committees?foreign affairs, defense, and all-German affairs. He became the most effective defender of Chancellor Adenauer's Western-oriented foreign policy in Bundestag debates. Adenauer hinted that he would some day bring him into the Cabinet, but that some day never came. Frustrated after nine years in Bonn, Kiesinger jumped at an invitation from his home state of Baden-Württemberg to take over as Minister-President (Governor...
...only natural for Konrad Adenauer to ask him to prepare a memorandum on whether or not the Christian Democratic Party should continue to emphasize its Christian background. The "High-C Report," which favored the "C" in "C.D.U.," became basic party doctrine and won for its author the Ministry of All-German Affairs in Adenauer's Cabinet...
...Neisse border to win over the Poles. Wladyslaw Gomulka, nervous at first, finally accepts an invitation to go to Washington. In February 1968, Erhard proposes to East Germany's Walter Ulbricht that joint plans be drafted for the formation of a German confederation, no longer insisting on free all-German elections or the tearing down of the Communist Wall as preconditions to the talks. Ulbricht is taken aback, but accepts when Erhard promises to renounce nuclear armament and maintain East Germany's socialist economy. Ulbricht wins congratulations from Pope Paul VI but is overthrown by a hard-lining...
Thus Zippel and Trochim joined a list of some 2,600 East German political prisoners who have been ransomed from Ulbricht's jails in the past two years (TIME, Oct. 16, 1964). The deals, arranged "privately" by West German lawyers but approved by Bonn's Minister of All-German Affairs Erich Mende, are financed by West German industrial firms (which then get a tax break), and the Bonn government. Total price to date: $24 million, or roughly $9,000 a head...