Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sudden Drama. The Soviet Foreign Minister declined to soften Russia's recently restated demand for the severing of all of West Germany's governmental ties to West Berlin as the price for easing Communist control of the isolated city's vital access routes. Both Nixon and Gromyko steered away from one subject that had presumably been settled: the "submarine base" allegedly under construction at Cienfuegos, Cuba. Under a secret agreement reportedly reached earlier, the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw the four submarine-refueling and supply vessels sighted at Cienfuegos in return for a U.S. promise to soft...
What confuses the current situation is that some positive elements are present. Last week, after months of stagnation, there were slight signs of movement in the talks between the U.S., Britain, France and Russia on Berlin. Next month the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks will resume; in addition, Russian and U.S. space experts will soon begin consultation on cooperative rescue procedures for disabled spacecraft...
...invasion of Jordan occurred with Moscow's prior knowledge. Apparently, the U.S. and Israel were prepared to intervene directly when Russia pressed Damascus to withdraw. Two weeks ago, Soviet air controllers in East Germany attempted to close down temporarily two of the three Western air corridors to West Berlin. Besides, East German police repeatedly held up traffic last week along the main West Germany-West Berlin autobahn...
...Soviet and East German acceptance of the fact that just as East Berlin has been incorporated into East Germany, West Berlin has definite, justifiable political links with the Federal Republic...
...lives!" is the slogan for a generation of restless students and budding revolutionaries the world over. The Black Panthers, who occasionally style themselves "Che-type," have adopted his black beret. Arab guerrillas sometimes name combat operations in his honor. Posters of Che adorn dorm walls from Berkeley to Berlin, and his books have become basic-training manuals for the New Left. Writers from Graham Greene to Susan Sontag have extolled him. West German Playwright Peter Weiss (Marat/ Sade) has even compared him to "a Christ taken down from the Cross...