Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting was surrounded by the usual secrecy; non-Communist observers are not even certain whether it was held at Sochi or 40 miles away at Pitsunda. Presumably, the conferees touched on a wide range of foreign policy problems -Berlin, the Soviet setback in the Sudan, China. What most interested Kremlinologists was the final conference communique containing a short but sharp denunciation of "leftwing and right-wing opportunism." Translated, that means China on the left and Yugoslavia and Rumania on the right...
...negotiations," Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko once observed, "it is the last 20 minutes that count." Last week there were strong rumors in Bonn that the four-power Berlin talks, now in their 17th month, might be approaching the 20-minute countdown. When the Big Four ambassadors meet this week in West Berlin's old Prussian High Court Building, they are expected to make it a marathon session that may last three days. Speculation was that they are ready to hammer out the last kinks in an "umbrella agreement" on the city's status. Such a breakthrough could...
...might be October or even later before an agreement is reached, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt said in Sweden that the talks have reached a "decisive stage." There were also indications that the Soviet side was straightening out its signals. After last week's Crimean summit talks, where Berlin was a key topic, East German Communist Party Chief Erich Honecker flew to Moscow. There he conferred with Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev and Ambassador to East Germany Pyotr Abrasimov, the Soviet representative at the Berlin talks...
...pace of the talks has been steadily accelerating since May. Until then the Soviets had insisted that access routes to West Berlin, 110 miles inside East Germany, be worked out by Bonn and the East German regime-which none of the Allies recognize diplomatically. But in May Moscow agreed for the first time since the end of World War II to guarantee free access to and from West Berlin...
...with perfect pitch. The Metropolitan Opera orchestra, for example, tunes up to an A that vibrates at 440 cycles per second-theoretically, the international pitch standard. In Pittsburgh, though, the symphony raises the pitch to 442, half a notch higher than the New York Philharmonic's 441.5. In Berlin, the Radio Symphony Orchestra soars to 446, enough to make singers' eyes pop on a top note. If the strain proves too great, they could take refuge in Moscow, where orchestras revel in a plushy, warm tone achieved by a larynx-relaxing 435 cycles...