Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crown the session with long speeches by comrades praising the Soviet Union as the true leader of the socialist world. Not any more, apparently. What was to have been a final preparatory meeting for an all-Europe Communist summit conference early next year ended in deadlock in East Berlin late last month. Instead of approving a document demonstrating Communist unity, the abortive meeting highlighted the unseemly disarray of Communism in Europe these days...
ANTONIA BRICO, 73, explains, "I felt I'd never forgive myself if I didn't try." Forty years ago, Brico seemed to be on the brink of a brilliant career. In 1930 she became the first woman to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic. Albert Schweitzer taught...
...just one month, Japanese soldiers occupying Nanking during W.W. II raped 20,000 women. Pakistani soldiers raped perhaps as many as 400,000 women as they swept through Bangladesh. German soldiers storming across Russia sadistically abused every woman unfortunate enough to be found. When Russian soldiers reached Berlin they retaliated in kind. Brownmiller's compilation of figures and the transcripts of victims' tales are torture to read. To be forced, once again, to read accounts of the atrocities committed by American soldiers in Vietnam makes one physically...
...called Helsinki issue has to be seen in the context of the evolution of East-West relationships. We used it as an incentive to get a Berlin Agreement and the start of mutual balanced force reductions in Europe by refusing to agree to a European Security Conference until after a Berlin Agreement. And that in turn quieted down an explosive situation, we hope for the foreseeable future...
...earned his living during the war by printing postcards of soldiers who had won the Iron Cross. All the characters are revealed as victims, afflicted by memories of what they suffered or what they inflicted. But there is one more victim of this curious book: the author himself. Berlin's "entertaining" plot is a kind of strategy for evading the very horrors he has resurrected. The price for that evasion is the Commemorations that is, instead of the major novel that might have been...