Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beyond the Soviet orbit, either. Last week three well-known authors, including the editor and the former editor of Novy Mir, the Soviet Union's bravely liberal literary journal, refused in Moscow to sign a statement supporting the Soviet stand in Czechoslovakia. East Germany opened trials in East Berlin of some 100 people who protested against the Warsaw Pact invasion. Ironically, among those sentenced to a two-year prison term was a woman named Sandra Weigl. She is related to Playwright Bertolt Brecht, whose works reflected his hope that Communism would end man's inhumanity...
...actually be true that men and societies reveal themselves most clearly in time of war. The murderers of Lidice would have been hard to detect in the streets of pre-1939 Berlin. Our own seemingly limitless capacity for killing Asians tells us something of what we are actually seeing when we travel across this country. And in the incredible debacle of the Light Brigade at remote Sebastopol, the inhumanity of mid-Victorian England was sharply illuminated...
...security in Europe. Whatever NATO's condition, the Soviets must also reckon that any invasion of Western Europe might bring down the full force of the U.S. nuclear deterrent on the Russian homeland-and World War III. Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford visited West Germany and West Berlin to convey firm assurance of U.S. protection. A few days later, Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach flew to Belgrade for talks with Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, who is feeling pressure from Moscow...
...government. The son of an engineer, he earned his economics doctorate at 24, developed a fascination for Keynesian economics as a lecturer at Kiel and a full professor at Hamburg. He got a chance to put his theories into practice in 1961, when Willy Brandt, then socialist mayor of Berlin, put Schiller to work at reversing the divided city's economic decline. By offering various tax incentives, Schiller successfully stanched a worrisome exodus of citizens from the city...
Married. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 43, famed German lieder singer; and Christina Pugell, 24, daughter of a Manhattan voice teacher whom he met during a 1967 U.S. tour; he for the third time (his first wife died in 1963; his second marriage ended in divorce last year); in West Berlin...