Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officialdom when he visited Moscow as a private citizen in 1967. But shortly after he became President, he talked publicly of wanting to meet Soviet leaders eventually. He and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko privately discussed the possibility in Washington last year, but agreed that progress on access to Berlin and arms limitation must come first. Now there has been a preliminary four-power agreement on Berlin, and a consensus on limiting defensive missiles seems near in the SALT talks. Gromyko returned with a formal invitation last month, and Nixon accepted. Throughout, the matter was handled with the complete secrecy...
Then came the sensational and daring escape of Elizabeth's friend and Jack Strickland's fiancee Brigitte Heider, who escaped through the Berlin Wall in May, 1969, in the bottom of a VW bus with her pet turtle and another East Citizen. Brigitte had escaped under the very nose of her step-father, a top East German Secret Police official, credited as being the man responsible for the security measures involved in the building of the Wall in 1961, and who was quoted as having said of the intervention of the Russians in Prague in 1968, "each and every...
...sentences were handed down along with some remarks which demonstrated that I was hostile to and not in agreement with security measures involved in building the Wall; viz., I had attended a speech given by Robert Kennedy in West Berlin in 1961 when the Wall was put up. Walter Cronkite of CBS telecast the sentences given us the very same night, but the only witness at the secret trial wasn't talking about the story behind the sentences--he was Major Hans Fuggeman of the East German Secret Police sitting alone in the rows of empty benches to make sure...
...during the third day of our march towards self-destruction, a dramatic change came. The prison officials backed off and gave in. We were rushed up to Berlin where Wolfgang Vogel sped us James Bond style in his pastel blue Mercedes across a secret checkpoint to transfer us to black State Department limousines with British military escorts. We had been saved by the signing of the Berlin Pact! A week after starving and thirsting on the dimly lit floors of Bautzen work camp, we were heading towards the nearest Hofbrauhaus to get rid of that thirst with a couple...
...mountain, not even the Berlin wall, is high enough to keep us apart. Elizabeth yearns to be here with me. If each of us lets his voice be heard, she will be here. There are two ways of doing this: one is simply to dial the Cambridge number 864-2180. My recorded voice will answer and ask you to give your name and town and say "Please Free Elizabeth." Dozens of messages can be recorded on the same phone call. You can also drop a post card in the mail that says the same ("Please Free Elizabeth") to: Free Elizabeth...