Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some time in the weeks before Christmas, Brandt, 59, will make a historic journey to East Berlin to sign a basic treaty, now assured of ratification, normalizing relations between the two states. But the main innovations of Ostpolitik will be largely over...
...name of one composer was on everybody's lips last week in Berlin. So were words like Wunderkind. After all, hadn't he matured faster than Mozart? It was said that his talents as pianist and conductor were beyond those of any of his contemporaries. On top of all that, he was evidently a likable, unpretentious man of the world, gifted in languages, poetry and science, a fit partner for any woman on the dance floor, and any man's match in the billiard room. Who was the man? Why, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy...
...election were a plebiscite on his Ostpolitik, even though he knew full well that few West Germans seriously opposed it. With skillful if transparent timing, his government-aided by Moscow, which also approved his Ostpolitik and exerted pressure on East Germany to cooperate-produced an agreement with East Berlin eleven days before the vote. Just before this week's vote, Brandt promised that "if I am reelected, I will not hesitate to propose that I travel to East Berlin myself-before Christmas if possible-to sign the basic treaty." All Barzel could do was suggest that his party would...
...treaty is, in effect, East Germany's long-sought title to separate status and membership in the community of nations. By its terms, Bonn establishes formal relations with East Berlin. A host of other capitals are sure to follow, starting with the Scandinavian countries. East Berlin will now demand, and will probably get, the right to participate fully in talks scheduled to begin Nov. 22 in Helsinki leading to a European Security Conference; if that happens, the easterners will also join in parallel negotiations expected next year on mutual and balanced force reductions in Europe. By next fall, both Germanys...
...rudder of Bach's plane is blackened by the leader's exhaust. The voice of the late John F. Kennedy rises through a dissolve that shows a New Jersey Air Guard unit listening. When the President says he will activate Air Guard squadrons for a year because of the Berlin crisis, the flyers, including Bach, roar approval. Then Bach is strapped into the dark cockpit of a night