Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While not directly dependent upon the summit, the new spirit in East-West relations was evident last week in two developments in West Germany. The first was aimed at eliminating the tensions that for more than 25 years have made the isolated city of West Berlin the focal point of the cold war. Secretary of State William Rogers joined the Soviet Union's Andrei Gromyko, Britain's Sir Alec Douglas-Home and France's Maurice Schumann in signing an agreement that should guarantee free access to West Berlin and more movement among residents of the two sectors...
Brandt has been to Harvard once before, in 1963, when he received an honorary doctor of laws degree. He was Governing Mayor of Berlin at the time
...ratification of the Moscow and Warsaw treaties (see THE WORLD), the Soviets are expected to press for further relaxation in Europe. Nixon, who also wants to maintain the momentum, is especially interested in the signing of the new four-power agreement on the improved status of West Berlin, which will guarantee unimpeded access between the city and West Germany, 110 miles away. In principle, the President has no objection to the convocation of the Soviet-backed Conference on European Security, which would confirm the existing borders of Europe. But Nixon is expected to insist that balanced U.S. and Soviet troop...
When Jepsen receives orders from Berlin to stop Max Ludwig Nansen from painting, he feels rather awkward. Nansen is not only a world famous artist, he is also Jepsen's lifelong friend. But the policemen never wavers. Echoing the party line, he informs an incredulous neighbor that their friend Nansen is "a danger to the State and undesirable, simply degenerate, if you see what I mean." Jepsen hesitates in the performance of duty when he finds the wounded body of his traitor son. But the hesitation is momentary. "What has to be done is going to be done," he reassures...
...friends." Then, in a double-cross, Schleicher had Von Papen ousted and became Chancellor himself, planning to rule Germany by splitting the Nazi Party and taking over a third of Hitler's Reichstag deputies. The plan had some merit; large numbers of Nazis, including at one time Berlin Party Chief Joseph Goebbels, thought Hitler had sold out to the capitalists...