Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made Nixon's White House work, but in an arbitrary and authoritarian fashion that made them a good many enemies and critics as well. On the eve of their Senate appearance, TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo sent this retrospective view of what life was like behind the "Berlin Wall" they created around Nixon...
...saying whether the French would be any more eager to put Paris on the line for Berlin. At any rate Europeans are anxious to have assurances of a U.S. nuclear umbrella. It was partly to allay that anxiety that Washington invited West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel to Washington last week for hastily arranged talks with Nixon and Kissinger. Scheel presumably re-emphasized German fears that the Nixon-Brezhnev agreement robs NATO of nuclear credibility and opens the door to Soviet blackmail...
East and West may talk of détente, but along the Berlin Wall the dominant sound is still the staccato of the machine gun. Almost every night the "Grepos," East Germany's infamous border police, turn on their searchlights and open up at a fugitive real or imagined, who they think is trying to cross into the West...
...prepared to assault the other side. Their impotence was quickly made clear, however, by an East German soldier, who pointedly reloaded his submachine gun and aimed it at their faces. Scattered shouts of "murderers," "criminals" and "swine" changed to a rhythmic chant of rage and frustration. Eventually West Berlin police arrived and told the crowd to go back to bed. "Ah, they were great, these Berliners, just great," exclaimed a French military policeman who was there...
...French commandant, speaking for his British and American colleagues as well, protested the incident, particularly he said, "when so many people in Europe hope for a lessening of tension." Added the Berliner Morgenpost: "The spirit of Helsinki may wave where it wants, but it is not waving in and around Berlin...