Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more-will do. Pierre Boulez now jets between the New York Philharmonic and London's BBC Symphony, Georg Solti between the Chicago Symphony and Orchestre de Paris, Zubin Mehta between the Los Angeles and Israel Philharmonics, Lorin Maazel between London's New Philharmonia and the Berlin Radio Orchestra; Maazel will also conduct the Cleveland Orchestra beginning next fall...
...Dutschke's S.D.S., Baader was caught throwing bombs into two Frankfurt department stores, causing nearly $700,000 in damages. Meinhof interviewed him in jail for Konkret and wrote approvingly of his "progressive" act. Two years later, Baader received permission from prison authorities to travel under guard to a Berlin library to do research. There Meinhof was seated at a table, pretending to read. Suddenly, two masked figures burst into the room, overpowered the guards and freed Baader. Under cover of tear-gas grenades and gunfire, they got away, leaving behind two wounded guards and a critically injured librarian...
Warm Welcome. The new ease of travel is a by-product of the recent four-power Berlin agreement (TIME, Sept. 13), which guarantees access between West Berlin and West Germany and allows West Berliners to travel with relative freedom to East Germany and to East Berlin. The accord, however, contained next to nothing for East Germans, and their complaints trickled up to Communist Party Chief Erich Honecker. During a Warsaw Pact summit meeting last September, he proposed that travel restrictions be eased within the Communist bloc. The suggestion was warmly welcomed by Warsaw, which is anxious to avoid a repetition...
...reap some popular credit. But there may be a few unexpected side effects. Polish citizens, for instance, will be able to see Western television on East German sets, and will probably return home discontented after they see the range of goods available in the shops of more prosperous East Berlin...
...Pakistan as well. But anywhere the Soviet Union and the U.S. find themselves disagreeing potentially jeopardizes the possibility of their going forward in other areas. Whereas any area where we agree helps. I think what really led both sides to the determination to go forward with the summit was Berlin. Berlin was the critical move. Once Berlin was made, Brezhnev on his side, and I on my side, through an exchange of letters, and also other various conversations, thought this was the time [to set a date for meeting...