Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also the leader of the Free Democratic Party, has the relaxed manner and quick wit of a Rhinelander. An adept mime, he delights in performing creditable imitations of other West German politicians. He loves to tell jokes, often making himself the butt. At a recent ball in West Berlin, for example, he showed up wearing a hand-lettered sign on his lapel that read in English: "Kiss me, I'm a Liberal...
...seriously weakened. There would be troubled questions about whether the U.S. would live up to its contractual defense commitments elsewhere. Many Germans, for example, feel that if the U.S. fails to hold South Viet Nam, as it once promised, it might also fail to come to the rescue of Berlin, as it has also promised. Actually, the fundamental strategic importance of Berlin is much greater, and the U.S. commitment there is a much older one. Nevertheless it was to defend Viet Nam that the U.S. went to war, and if it "bugs out" there, a lot of Germans?and others?...
Asked by the speaker if he accepted the leadership position, the former foreign minister and Berlin mayor replied "Yes, Mr. President, I accept election...
...BERLIN-Two armed East German defectors forced a Polish airliner to land in West Berlin yesterday. The two men were granted asylum...
According to an official spokesman, none of the other 63 passengers and nine crewmen asked to remain in the west. The plane proceeded to East Berlin, its next scheduled stop on the way to Brussels, Belgium, its final destination...