Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caustic wit with touches of Chinese opera. Peking, he asserted, "struggles in its endless ordeal against human nature," and executed between 10 million and 50 million people "in the course of giving flesh to the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung." Taiwan, on the other hand, "is the West Berlin of China." The Chinese on Taiwan have a special mission, said Buckley, because "in the years and decades to come, their separated brothers on the mainland will look all the more wistfully to Taiwan in consideration of what it has done for its people, and permitted to its people." The West...
...highest humanitarian award.* The five-member Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, which selects the recipient, cited his efforts on behalf of the 1968 nuclear nonproliferation treaty, his signing of nonaggression treaties with Poland and the Soviet Union last year, and his moves toward easing tensions in divided Berlin. "Chancellor Brandt," said the committee's citation, "has stretched his hand forward in a policy of reconciliation between old enemies. He has made an outstanding effort to establish conditions for peace in Europe...
...award did not come as a total surprise to the former West Berlin mayor who became West Germany's first Social Democratic Chancellor in 1969. As rumors grew that he was a leading contender, Brandt privately urged that Jean Monnet, the French architect of the Common Market, be honored instead. Though relations between West Germany and Eastern Europe have greatly improved, Brandt regards his policy of reconciliation as only half begun, and he has a point. The Bundestag, where his party has only a slim majority, has not yet ratified the nonaggression pacts with Warsaw and Moscow. Franz Josef...
Elisabeth Neumann--an East German citizen--had been jailed with her fiance Lyle Jenkins for "conspiring to entice citizens out of the German Democratic Republic." She was freed without explanation Tuesday and transported to West Berlin...
Jenkins, who was released last July upon the signing of the Four Power treaty, flew to West Berlin last night from Washington, where he had been organizing a nationwide campaign to 'Free Elisabeth...