Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years to unravel history's worst mess-which we helped create at Yalta-only to make things worse by allowing the Berlin Wall. The Germans have no choice but to take matters into their own hands, if there is to be any hope for a just solution between the two Germanys and to the cold war. I am glad that Willy Brandt has the courage to seek new ways of establishing peaceful coexistence with East Germany and the countries east of the Oder-Neisse line. This man and his countrymen deserve our support...
...rescued. Normally punctual French trains were canceled or delayed for up to six hours by frozen switches, and by the efforts of engineers who stopped to pick up stranded motorists in the open countryside. The sub-zero cold caused power shortages in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, and East Berlin streets were blacked out to conserve electricity. In Yugoslavia, where drifts reached 16 ft. on major highways and to the second floor of buildings in the city of Sarajevo, local papers spoke of "the white catastrophe...
That apocalyptic allegory is the plot of Der Dra-Dra, the latest work of one of Communism's most controversial artists. Wolf Biermann, 34, a sad-faced East Berlin balladeer, is the spiritual heir of Bertolt Brecht, who spent his last years in the city. But while Brecht directed most of his barbs at the abuses of capitalism ("Don't rob a bank. Own one"), Biermann aims his satire at the political dictatorships of both left and right. Biermann's approach has hardly endeared him to Communist Party Boss Walter Ulbricht and East Germany...
...Eastern Europe. Before Poland erupted, some officials in the West were hopeful that balanced withdrawals could begin within two or three years. That estimate is probably too optimistic now. Brandt also insists that the security conference cannot be held unless the Russians, in addition to making an accommodation on Berlin, show forward movement at the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT...
...block Bonn's overtures to other East bloc countries. But Brandt is hoping that the Soviet impulse will be offset by Moscow's hunger for West German technology. That may not be a bad calculation. Notes Richard Lowenthal, an expert on Eastern Europe at the Free University of Berlin: "Despite Moscow's increasingly active global role, the Soviets are on the road of decline?not in the military-or political-power sense, but in the economic and technological sense ?compared to the West. They are falling behind, and they are beginning to notice...