Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like success against American troops in I Corps." U.S. Pacification Chief Robert Komer, a World War II combat historian, agrees that a climactic battle may be imminent, but compares it to Saint-Ló, when the Allies burst out of the Normandy perimeter and began the great sweep to Berlin. There may be hard fighting ahead for the U.S., but once the I Corps challenge is met, Komer implies, it may prove to be "a downhill...
CABARET, winner of eight Tony Awards, including one for Best Musical, is all binding and no book. The ambiance of the musical, set in the decadent Berlin of the 1930s, is as sinuous and sexy as original sin, but the show's plot line and score are all predictability and convention...
...Russians, who have been quarreling about the transit of Russian aid across China by rail, have reached an agreement that will speed the flow. North Viet Nam's Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh went off to make a pitch for even more aid in Peking, Moscow and East Berlin, where the East German Communists are holding their party congress. From the Communist camp outside Viet Nam, a river of arms and economic aid flows into the north that amounts to more than $1 billion a year-and is almost certain to be stepped...
...disappointment, though, is that Isherwood stints. Patrick is fully as alive as Sally Bowles, the heroine of Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, and could support a longer novel. But Patrick is too briefly met. For the reader taken with the charming villain, A Meeting by the River is only a teaser...
...bitterness between East and West Germany does not drive from the Berlin wall. An open border existed, after all, for 13 years and there was no more harmonious cooperation than now. East and West Germany are components of different international systems and they are committed to different goals. The reunification that West Germany desires cannot be achieved by friendly negotiations any more than East Germany can hope to achieve an international identity by the same technique. But both regimes believe that they can profit politically by talking about friendly negotiations. Neither wants the negotiations. Neither expects that there will...