Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rush, a lawyer-businessman-diplomat, was U.S. Ambassador to West Germany from 1969 to 1972. He did an excellent job as the U.S. negotiator for the four-power Berlin agreement that guaranteed free access to the city. Rush is close to French Foreign Minister Jean Sauvagnargues, who as ambassador to Bonn was France's representative at the Berlin talks. A longtime Nixon friend, Rush went to the White House last May as an adviser on economic policy. He will replace John N. Irwin II in Paris...
...more than two decades East Germany was the pariah among nations, its huge foreign ministry building in East Berlin underused because only a dozen countries, all Communist, maintained full diplomatic relations with it. The West not only denied its existence as a nation but refused to call it the German Democratic Republic-its official name -insisting that it was nothing more than an extension of the Soviet Zone of Occupation. Then five years ago, Chancellor Willy Brandt relaxed Bonn's opposition to the East Berlin regime, and the G.D.R. began its long journey in from the cold. Nation after...
...unquestioningly. After the Anschluss (annexation of Austria), Hitler farmed him out to be Gauleiter (district leader) of Vienna, where he remained till war's end. At Nuremberg in 1946, Von Schirach was convicted of complicity in the murder of 50,000 Austrian Jews and spent 20 years at Berlin's Spandau prison...
William Shakespeare was powerless to prevent West Side Story. Tennessee Williams is luckier. When Director Charles Lang of West Berlin's Freie Volksbühne theater decided to stage a revisionist production of Williams' classic Streetcar Named Desire, he cast black actor Günther Kaufmann as the red necked Stanley Kowalski. Lang's other change was even more radical: rather than being raped by Kowalski, Blanche DuBois is seduced by him. Tennessee learned of Lang's plans just before the opening and immediately got an injunction to stop the performance. Ruling the show could...
...violent opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine. He instigated anti-Zionist riots, wiped out Arab opponents, and was driven into exile by the British. After years of cloak-and-daggery in various Arab lands, he served Adolf Hitler by broadcasting anti-Allied propaganda to the Moslem world from Berlin. He later lived regally in Cairo and Beirut, ever plotting against the Jewish state...