Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Germans celebrated Oktoberfest last week, the country fairly crackled with an excitement and ebullience that went far beyond the enjoyment of Gemüitlichkeit. On the streets, in restaurants, beer halls, offices and shops from West Berlin to Bavaria, West Germans could be heard engaged in a great, continuing national debate on the election that will be held Nov. 19. The vote, beyond ending a deadlock that has turned their Bundestag into a cockpit of frustration, will amount to nothing less than a referendum on the future of the Federal Republic. It will decide whether West Germany will continue...
...Warsaw that renounced Germany's old land claims-and by accepting the division of Germany into what Bonn now refers to as "two states in one nation" -Brandt led the way toward détente in Europe. His early initiatives eventually led to a four-power agreement on Berlin, the first direct negotiations between the two Germanys, and an improved climate for an international conference on European security. Between now and November, Brandt and Chief West German Negotiator Egon Bahr hope to reach agreement with the German Democratic Republic on a treaty that will define the relationship between...
...Brandt's foreign policy accomplishments. As if to allay any doubts, the opposition leader pledged last week that he did not intend to alter whatever is "legally in force." He even staked a claim for possible Ostpolitiking of his own. "Those in authority in Moscow, Warsaw and East Berlin," he said, "would talk to us if it were in their interest...
...BERLIN TO BROADWAY WITH KURT WEILL
...supplies an exclusive look at the policy maker in action. Landau also examined Kissinger's position papers, his books and articles, and the recollections of his friends and colleagues. Landan writes that Kissinger wanted President Kennedy to invade the Eastern Sector of Germany after the construction of the Berlin Wall. He surveys Kissinger's contributions as an adviser to Nelson Rockefeller, and highlights the scholar's support for family bomb shelters and a visible American presence in underdeveloped countries. For those who still had doubts. Landau justly concludes that the "differences in (Nixon's and Kissinger's) rhetoric...