Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case his readers have corrections or additions to offer, Mader has included a blank page that can be torn out and mailed to an East Berlin post office. But one page will hardly suffice...
Walter Ulbricht was not really interested in revenue. The move seemed intended primarily to underscore East Germany's claim that it is a sovereign nation. It was also likely that Ulbricht, as the East bloc's last surviving Stalinist, hoped that a new Berlin crisis might induce a show of comradely support in Eastern Europe, dampening the trends toward liberalism in Czechoslovakia and Rumania. Since it was his third move in recent months against West Berlin's access routes, Ulbricht also obviously hoped to shake the city's self-confidence and discourage foreign investors...
...Danger of Reasonableness. On receiving the news, West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, the former mayor of West Berlin, hurried back from Vienna. Ironically, he had been on his way to Belgrade to seek President Tito's support for West Germany's new policy of easing tensions with the East bloc. In Bonn, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger held an emergency Cabinet session. In Paris, London and Washington, the allies, who guarantee West Berlin's security, conferred about what to do. The painful decision was to do nothing, aside from making a few perfunctory gestures. Kiesinger flew...
...danger of such a low-key response was that Ulbricht might be emboldened to undertake some new move to tighten the noose that he holds around West Berlin...
Died. Teo Otto, 64, one of the world's leading stage designers, whose symbolic sets graced theaters from Hamburg to Haifa; of a heart attack; in Frankfurt, West Germany. A member of the Berlin group that included Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill, Otto fled Hitler's Brownshirts in 1933, set up camp in Zurich where he staged a Richard III that would either "win the Zurich public or send us back to the concentration camps." The play was a success, and Otto went on to stage such hits as Figaro and The Three-Penny Opera...