Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signing of a preliminary agreement on Berlin last week was the most important step toward detente in Europe since the Austrian Peace Treaty of 1955. One by one, the ambassadors of the U.S., Britain, France...
Soviet Union entered the palatial Allied Control building in West Berlin, once the seat of the Prussian High Court. Then, seated at a long oak table, each man signed his name no fewer than twelve times. U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Rush welcomed the agreement "as a sign of the Soviet Union's desire to move from confrontation to negotiation." Soviet Ambassador Pyotr Abrasimov threw out his hands and shouted: "All's well that ends well...
Their slim draft of about a dozen pages, a so-called "umbrella agreement," will probably be worked over for months before the Big Four Foreign Ministers finally sign a Berlin Protocol. The ambassadors will meet once again early this week. Then, barring a last-minute hitch, they will dispatch the draft document to their governments for approval. Once that is secured, officials of the two Germanys and the two Berlins must hammer out the final details concerning access to the city and travel between West Berlin and East Berlin and between West Berlin and East Germany. The whole fragile structure...
ACCESS. The most important achievement for the West was a Soviet guarantee of free and "unimpeded" travel along the three air corridors, two autobahns, three rail lines and two waterways that traverse the 110 miles between West Berlin and West Germany. The Soviets had long maintained that they were powerless to prevent East Germany from harassing traffic along the corridors; last week's agreement became possible only after the Russians consented to take specific responsibility for ensuring free access to West Berlin. The draft document specifies that passenger and freight trains, buses and trucks will be sealed before they...
Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41 (Herbert von Karajan; Berlin Philharmonic; Angel, 3 LPs; $5.98 each). Six testaments to the delectable creations in which Mozart not only prophesied the symphonic era that followed him but very nearly said the last word on the subject. Von Karajan's distinctive blend of rich phrase and richer orchestral sonority customarily works well. But this time he seems surprisingly nonchalant. His drowsy Jupiter, for instance, might better be called Saturn. The best set of these symphonies remains Otto Klemperer's (also on An gel), and- for crisp, detail-laden...