Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour conference with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko-a session that one participant later termed "more friendly than any previous meeting" between the often dour Gromyko and U.S. officials. The talks ranged the world trouble spots, from the Middle East to the India-Pakistan dispute and to West Berlin. There apparently was little discussion of Nixon's Peking trip or of U.S. involvement in South Viet Nam-two sensitive issues. But both sides expressed optimism about achieving progress in arms limitation when the SALT talks resume next month in Vienna...
...forces can be assembled. To accomplish this, it has infantry and armored units scattered from Frankfurt to Bavaria. About 90,000 troops are considered combat ready. They include an advance guard of the Second and 14th Armored Cavalry regiments, which patrol the East German and Czechoslovakian borders, and the Berlin Brigade. The remainder of the Seventh is of uncertain efficiency...
...past several months, reports TIME's David Tinnin from Belgrade, the Yugoslavs have been disturbed that Moscow seemed to be getting away with a double game. In Western Europe the Soviet Union has been establishing better relations by negotiating the Berlin agreement, while in Eastern Europe the Soviets have carried on a war of nerves in some respects similar to the campaign that preceded the invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...when Hitler seemed to most of the world a mildly ominous crank, Armstrong interviewed him at the Berlin Chancellery. He had "nice, wide-open eyes," a large nose and an "insignificant appearance." His forelock flapping over his eye, Hitler delivered a strange monologue about Germany's need to rearm, and then at the door told Armstrong he had enjoyed "our animated talk." Armstrong soon produced a short, foreboding book called Hitler's Reich-The First Phase, warning accurately of what was to come. Later, he visited Mussolini in Rome. Asked to assess his fellow dictator to the north...
BRANDT IN THE CRIMEA: Following the signing of the Big Four agreement on Berlin last month, the Soviets unexpectedly invited West German Chancellor Willy Brandt to fly to the Crimea for talks with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Brandt, anxious to get his stalled Ostpolitik back on schedule, quickly accepted. During three days of meetings last week at the secluded village of Oreanda near Yalta, Brandt told the Soviet leader of his concern over the second phase of the Berlin negotiations, involving talks between the two Germanys over access provisions of the agreement. The talks were bogging down over West...