Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When West German Chancellor Willy Brandt signed the Treaty of Moscow last August, he tied its ratification to a successful resolution of the problem of West Berlin, which depends on tenuous lifelines that stretch 110 miles through hostile East German territory. Last week, as the ambassadors of the Big Four completed their 18th meeting in Berlin, it was disappointingly clear that no solution was in sight...
...then returned to Mexico, where he recruited several more aspiring guerrillas. In order to avoid suspicion by Western intelligence agencies, they traveled individually to East Berlin, where they exchanged their Mexican passports for false North Korean passports. They regrouped in Moscow, where they visited for ten days before flying to Pyongyang on a Soviet Aeroflot plane. Next came six months of training in guerrilla tactics, radiotelegraphy, judo and use of weapons. Retracing their steps through Moscow and East Berlin, the youthful firebrands returned to Mexico and, during the next year, with another $16,000 supplied by North Korea, recruited...
Range began covering the military while in Germany. He reported on the tense atmosphere in West Berlin following the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1969, he interviewed Albert Speer, Hitler's Munitions Minister, who was found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg and wrote Inside the Third Reich. They struck up an acquaintanceship and still exchange letters...
Despite such shortcomings, however, the Soviet consumer has never had it so good. Food shops arrange supplies, while they last, in neat, tempting pyramids. New Soviet shopping centers such as the showplace stores along Moscow's Kalinin Prospekt are virtually indistinguishable in appearance from shops in West Berlin or Amsterdam...
...Four ambassadors meeting in Berlin to negotiate the city's status had developed a ritual of retiring after each session for a long and lavish luncheon at the residence of one or another. In an effort to accomplish more business, it was decided that the Americans would cater the meal during one meeting. The arrangement did little to promote détente, however. The mistrustful Russians brown-bagged their own caviar and vodka. The Americans-chacun son goût-served hamburgers. No agreement on Berlin is in sight...