Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most obvious of the results was Khrushchev's removal of a deadline on the West for getting out of Berlin. At Camp David, President Eisenhower had flatly refused to discuss other subjects until Khrushchev specifically dumped the deadline. Khrushchev finally agreed, but refused to put the promise in writing. Instead he said he would publicly confirm it when he returned to Moscow. That, last week...
...reported on a frank exchange of opinion and an agreement that "the question of general disarmament is the most important one facing the world today." Then came the key message on Germany. "On the question of Germany, the positions of both sides were expounded. With respect to the specific Berlin question, an understanding was reached, subject to the approval of the other parties concerned, that negotiations would be reopened with a view to achieving a solution...
...nine days the murder trial of Berlin-born Gunther Fritz Podola, 30, was postponed while a London jury considered a plea the like of which had never before been heard in an English court of law (TIME, Sept. 21). The plea: in "the very severe fright" caused by the violence of his arrest, Podola had lost his memory, and so was unfit to plead to the charge of shooting a London cop. Last week, after a procession of experts had offered conflicting medical opinion on whether Podola was, in fact, suffering from "hysterical amnesia," the jury finally decided that...
...cynical Parisienne: "If the whole youth of Europe was told, 'You are a unity from the Elbe to the Atlantic,' its answer would be, 'We could not care less.' " Yet, in practice, young Europeans recognize their kinship. "Wherever I go in Western Europe," says a Berlin physics student, "I feel as if we all have the same blood group. We don't really have to bother to get acquainted, because there's nothing strange about anybody's life or ways. We can get right down to the fine points, like which drinks, dances...
...Emil Fuchs, 47, British atomic spy who was released from prison three months ago, flew to East Germany, where he was rewarded with a job as deputy director of the East German Central Institute for Atomic Physics; and Greta Keilson, 53, widow; he for the first time; in East Berlin...