Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, the Bonn government tried to maintain that no talks about force reduction should start before progress has been made on Berlin. Bonn retreated from that position quickly, since NATO long ago suggested such talks without prior negotiation. But the West Germans had a point when they pleaded that other negotiations should not be allowed to undermine or sidetrack the Berlin bargaining. Chancellor Willy Brandt, showing up unexpectedly at a meeting of NATO Defense Ministers at Mittenwald, Bavaria, emphasized that "new initiatives should not be permitted to serve as an excuse for lessening the intensity with which the negotiations...
...wake of East Berlin's 1953 bread riots, the Communist regime scolded the people for having forfeited the government's confidence and demanded that they work twice as hard to atone. Marxist Dramatist Bertolt Brecht offered a classic rejoinder. Instead of trying to rehabilitate such people, asked Brecht sarcastically, "wouldn't it be simpler for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?" It remained for Czechoslovakia, nearly two decades later, to take Brecht at his word...
...strikes across the northern mountains brought Indian pleas for military aid from any quarter. East-West ideological battles are bound to continue, though perhaps in abated form, and so will jockeying for political and military advantage. But the two superpowers will carry on laborious negotiations: the Berlin meetings, the SALT talks and the anticipated discussions of mutual force reductions in Europe are examples. This delicate diplomatic work is not helped by Senate efforts to mandate U.S. troop reductions in Europe-or by a hard-nosed presidential response that finds "unacceptable" even a congressional request that negotiations be speeded...
...first real taste of what infighting and influence games in the White House were really like. Not that he had ever been naive and amiss; it was simply that the struggle for power was more subtle and refined that even he had imagined. After advising Kennedy on the Berlin crisis-and asking the President to enter negotiations with the Russians and flex the possibilities of response, which Kennedy never did-Kissinger boorishly chose to criticize the President's policy in the pages of Foreign Affairs. Even as Kennedy failed to be swayed by his advice, he travelled about the world...