Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Germans crossed into the West over a period of 16 years. Since then, only 128,000 have escaped illegally, and at least 100,000 of them managed it by using false identity papers. It is now estimated that scarcely 20 people a month cross the Wall into West Berlin...
Strauss Waltzes. Even as the two men met, the three Allied powers that control West Berlin sent a note to the Soviet Union. It asked Moscow whether it would be interested in talks between West and East Germany about reducing tensions "in and around Berlin and between the two parts of Germany." The proposal was in reply to Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko's recent statement that Russia would welcome talks about "normalizing" the status of Berlin. The British, French and the Americans made the offer primarily to put the ball back in the Soviets' court, while not endangering...
...White House state dinner, Nixon invited many of the Americans who helped guide West Germany in the immediate postwar period. Among the guests were General Lucius Clay, postwar U.S. Military Governor of Germany, John McCloy, first civilian High Commissioner, and Dean Acheson, Secretary of State during the Berlin airlift. Kiesinger reminisced with the old German hands as the Marine chamber orchestra played Strauss waltzes...
...brawling brothers. But that was just for loot. Now that he was back on his feet, some things were griping him. The moral backslide, for one. He stumped for his friends Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. "I said there was a tall, lanky kid that led 150 airplanes across Berlin. He was an actor, but that day, I said, he was a colonel. Colonel Jimmy Stewart. So I said, what is all this crap about Reagan being an actor...
...overwhelming event, the fallout was widespread and sometimes offbeat. Scores of children born last week were named "Apollo" or "Moon," "Tranquillity" or "Luna." The Siam Motor Works offered scholarships from primary school through university for the Thai children born nearest the exact moments of lunar landing and splashdown. The Berlin Zoo christened three wildcat cubs born during the moon walk Neil, Buzz and Mike. For a "moon happening" in Vienna, a bakery produced a 300-lb., 6-ft. cake decorated with marzipan craters...