Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With his old lieutenants gone, Nixon had to deal with a new staff that has not yet shaken down into a smoothly functioning team. As the week passed, it became increasingly clear that the President has replaced the old "Berlin Wall" of Haldeman and Ehrlichman with a new wall of Alexander Haig and Ronald Ziegler. Deputy Press Secretary Warren, who has taken over many of Ziegler's customary duties while Ziegler spends his time working with the President on unspecified matters, reported that Nixon had not so much as talked on the telephone with his counsels in charge...
...Dean's public testimony began, one of the President's most loyal and sympathetic former advisers told TIME that he sees, sadly, only a fifty-fifty chance that Nixon can remain in office. This insider considers it conceivable, though unlikely, that Nixon was so isolated by his Berlin wall of Ehrlichman and Haldeman that he did not know about either the espionage plans or the later concealment. "The White House was like a prophylactic sac," he says. "Everything was artificially inseminated." The former official believes that Nixon insisted on this kind of protection because he had developed...
...home and forget the war" went the disk jockey's sexy, close-to-the-mike line to the G.I.s. Broadcasting from Berlin, alongside her German lover, Mildred Gillars, alias "Axis Sally," sandwiched Nazi propaganda between records by "der Bingel" Crosby. Her broadcasts eventually drew Mildred a twelve-year stretch in a federal prison for women. Out on parole in 1961, she taught French and German in a suburban school. A long-ago dropout from Ohio Wesleyan University (she had been the first coed to wear knickers on campus in 1920), Mildred, at 72, quietly finished work for her degree...
During the 30-mile helicopter flight from Lod to Jerusalem, Brandt-who had visited the city in 1960, when he was mayor of West Berlin -donned earphones so that his Israeli companions could point out the sights. Later, he was taken to Yad Vashem, a solemn memorial to Jews killed by the Nazis. Standing near such names as Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald, spelled out in English and Hebrew on the memorial's floor, Brandt heard the cantor chant: "Let the Lord remember the souls of our brethren ... who were put to death, and who were killed and choked...
...published in September, Berlin is a longer and more elaborately plotted version of the Hunt formula and the Hunt style ("He was back, as the saying went, to square one"), but it is a notch above his usual work. Hunt's hero this time is ex-CIA Agent Neal Thorpe, who returns to the spy game to save Werber's beautiful stepdaughter Annalise (who knows too much). He loves espionage ("He was alive again") but loathes politics. When Thorpe snorts in disgust at a mere mention of the U.N., his mysterious CIA boss, "the man called Smith," replies...