Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extraordinary presidential order indicated the extent to which U.S.-Soviet relations have deteriorated in recent months. It comes at a moment when delicate East-West negotiations are under way in Helsinki, Berlin and Warsaw. While the growing gulf between Washington and Moscow has not led to a suspension of any talks, it certainly has not improved the atmosphere around the conference tables...
...BERLIN: In West Berlin, the ambassadors of the Big Four (U.S., Soviet Union, Britain and France) held their ninth meeting since last July on the status of the divided city. The Soviets expressed a. readiness to accept a package deal on three major issues in the talks: 1) civilian access from West Germany to West Berlin, which sits 110 miles inside East Germany; 2) the right of West Berliners to visit East Berlin; 3) the political status of West Berlin...
...Four agreed that West Germany, East Germany and the West Berlin Senate should work out an agreement on the first two issues. But this contains the seeds of a troublesome problem. If West Berlin is treated as a separate and equal partner in negotiating the first two points, Bonn's argument that the city is a part of the federal republic will be undermined. That would reinforce the Soviet contention that West Germany should not be allowed to represent West Berlin diplomatically throughout the Western world as it now does, but that the city should have its own foreign...
Nonetheless, the West remains so eager for some sign of movement on Berlin that the tentative Soviet agreement was generally hailed as progress, especially in detente-minded West Germany. Chancellor Willy Brandt is particularly anxious for a settlement in Berlin to buttress his shaky coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats. Still, if the Russians want to heighten tensions in the city again, they got the perfect pretext at week's end. A rightist sniper, who left behind handbills charging that Brandt was abandoning West Berlin, seriously wounded a Soviet sentry guarding the Russian war memorial in the British...
...British philosopher Isaiah Berlin once divided thinkers into Hedgehogs and Foxes. The Fox roams freely, a random chaser of unknown intellectual scents, a case of pure curiosity organized only by the zigzag of the hunt. The Hedgehog bounds his territory, reduces it to a unity. He starts with his own terms and squeezes the universe inside them...