Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hunt's newest novel, The Berlin Ending, is about a Willy Brandt-like character-Klaus Werber, West German Foreign Minister and notorious "anti-Communist cold warrior," perhaps to be honored with the Nobel Prize and the secretary-generalship of the United Nations. The gimmick: in truth Werber is a Soviet agent...
Veteran Gunslinger John Wayne was on hand to pay homage, as was Sammy Davis Jr. Even Irving Berlin, just turned 85, joined in singing his own song, God Bless A merica...
...After a long session with West German businessmen, in which Brezhnev spoke lengthily about the opportunities for huge investments in the Soviet Union one Bonn official remarked "He was really talking about aid, not trade and paying off with raw materials." In Brezhnev's political discussions with Brandt, Berlin as always proved to be a problem. Halfway through the visit, the Russians refused to include any reference to Berlin in the joint communiqué. In response, Brandt refused to sign any statement at all. The Germans told their Russian counterparts that the use of Berlin as a pressure point...
...territory. Equally adept at political infighting, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev after the war and in 1953 presided over the tribunal that sentenced Stalin's Secret Police Chief Lavrenti Beria to death. Khrushchev appointed Konev commander of the Warsaw Pact armies, then, in 1961, shifted him to Berlin to take charge of Soviet forces during the building of the Berlin Wall...
...history that seem to sum up an era. As a Soviet editor put it, "When Brezhnev steps down in Bonn, you can draw a line under World War II." Brezhnev made it clear that he believed the outlook to be sunny. During a brief earlier visit to East Berlin, he had said: "The political barometer in Europe today points more and more plainly to clear weather." At the airport, he added: "We can say that a good foundation has been created. Now it is important to build on this foundation a stable edifice of good neighborly relations." Said Brandt...