Word: barzel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Personal Expression. Russia's main fear has been that in a reunified Germany the Red Army could no longer "cork" the threat of German expansion -either military or economic-into Eastern Europe. To allay that fear, Barzel proposed that Germany assume "special military status" outside NATO and that Soviet troops be allowed to remain on reunited German soil. He reiterated earlier promises of a continuing German aid-and-trade arrangement with Eastern Europe and proposed an economically palatable 5% annual increase for the next 20 years as well. Barzel also suggested that the Communist Party could be "legalized...
...accident that Rainer Barzel chose to make his controversial proposals on reunification before the American Council on Germany in Manhattan last week. For months, he had watched the upsurge of German interest in new moves toward reunification. But on his last visit to Washington in April, he found senior officials totally unaware of either the depth or strength of West German feeling. After his speech last week, State Department officials cautiously let it be known that they were re-examining the matter. For while Barzel is relatively unknown in the U.S., he is deputy chairman of the Christian Democratic Union...
...suave, cigar-smoking Barzel (pronounced Bart-sell) acts as Erhard's right-hand man in the Bundestag, conferring with him weekly on all major legislation and in between times on other top issues of the day. He traveled 13,000 miles speechmaking for the Christian Democrats in last summer's election campaign, has been responsible for the past two years for shepherding all major legislation through the legislature. In the Bundestag, he has become famous for his ability to reconcile squabbling factions in the party...
...Boss. Nowadays this is usually done with tact-but originally it took toughness as well. Shortly after he took over in 1964, Barzel called a caucus of the party's 240 deputies and announced that if one more squabble erupted in public, the party could consider his resignation. "Everybody looked at Konrad Adenauer and the other older leaders, waiting for challenge," recalls one deputy. "It did not come. Young Barzel walked out of there the boss...
...quite an accomplishment for a man of 40 in a nation that seldom considers a man fit for high public office until he is well past his 50s. But Barzel had long since established himself as a comer. He joined the Neues Deutschland young Catholic movement while still a law student at the University of Cologne, and by the time he was elected to the Bundestag from a heavily Catholic Rhineland district in 1957, was already spokesman for an influential group of young Catholic laymen...