Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laos, a major step toward peace in Southeast Asia. So I was very reluctant at that period to see us go gung-ho in the area until we saw how that worked out." Moreover, Rusk said, the level of infiltration was "still very low," and the Berlin crisis made "a number of us reluctant to make additional commitments in South Viet Nam during that episode...
Huge kudu eyes, wide, hungry mouth, bullfrog-in-a-barrel baritone: Hildegard Knef came sauntering out of rubbled Berlin to become an international star -for the U.S. a sexy fraulein figure renamed Hildegarde Neff, for Germany a second and more controversial Dietrich. And here it is: the expectable show biz autobiography. But not the predictable boredom: The Gift Horse sold 300,000 copies in Germany. Like Puccini's Tosca, Hilde Knef has lived for art and love, but like Brecht's Ginny Jenny she now casts a cold eye on her follies and grandeur. Don't expect...
Honecker's cautious approach was dramatically underlined during last week's congress. In a six-hour speech, he mentioned the Soviet Union no fewer than 55 times. He never brought up Ulbricht's old claim that West Berlin occupies East German territory and thus should be taken over by East Germany some day. Instead, Honecker described the city as having a "special political status," an approach that agrees with both the Soviet and Western viewpoints. He also dropped Ulbricht's insistence upon Western diplomatic recognition of East Germany as the prerequisite for Communist guarantees on Western...
Improved Atmosphere. The change in the East German line made Brezhnev's speech at the congress all the more important. The Soviet party leader told delegates that the 15-month-old Big Four talks on West Berlin were reaching the conclusive stage. "I cannot speak for our partners [Britain, France and the U.S.] in the talks," said Brezhnev, "but we for our part are prepared to make efforts to bring this matter to a successful conclusion...
TWENTY-SIX years after Adolf Hitler shot himself to death in his Berlin bunker, the face of the late, unlamented dictator has become an acute embarrassment to the Austrian government. Der Führer, whose likeness appeared on at least 15 different stamps in dozens of denominations, commissioned a special issue for his 54th birthday in 1943. The Austrian State Printing Office, a Nazi enterprise at that time, printed the stamps in Vienna. No one knows how many went into circulation. But when the Third Reich fell two years later, some 20 million remained, and they have been gathering dust...