Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move more aggressively in social action, and more conservative elements. Notable on the conservative side are the Orthodox churches, most of which were admitted to the WCC at its last assembly, and whose 140 voting delegates at Uppsala (of a total of 750) represented the most powerful single bloc. The ecumenical movement has slowed in the face of continued differences over fundamental issues of faith. Potentially most serious of all for the WCC is the emergence of "underground churches," in which growing numbers of Christians worship in far-out manners and modes that represent a revolt against the more rigid...
...Fortas to succeed Earl Warren was surprising only in its predictability. A close friend and adviser, whom Johnson had named to take Arthur Goldberg's place in 1965, Fortas has distinguished himself in three Sessions on the Supreme Court, closely following?and to an increasing degree leading?the activist bloc that has dominated the Warren court for the past 15 years. If he was not a surprise, he was, at least in one way, unique. The fifth Jew to sit on the bench?the others were Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter and Goldberg?he would be the first...
...they met five times while Brandt was still West Berlin's mayor), it was a tough session. Though he issued no blustery warnings, Brandt made it clear that Bonn would not allow itself to be provoked into abandoning its policy of improving relations with the East bloc -a policy whose moderate success in Bucharest, Prague, Belgrade and Budapest obviously seemed to Ulbricht and his Soviet backers to be a dangerous flanking operation...
Facing such Soviet intransigence, many Socialists, especially those near Brandt, would like to respond to Ulbricht's travel restrictions by some daring move, such as abolishing the need for visas for other East bloc visitors to West Germany, in order to illustrate how anachronistic Ulbricht's restrictions are. In today's relaxing Europe, they also favor diplomatic recognition of East Germany in hopes that even a slight reduction in tensions there might help to create a situation in which the 74-year-old Ulbricht's successor, or perhaps his successor's successor, might turn...
Those desires are unrealistic at present, because the Christian Democrats refuse to go along with them. Many of them, on the contrary, favor a return to a far tougher line with the Soviet bloc and argue that West German concessions are likely only to encourage Ulbricht to tighten his grip on West Berlin. As they see it, deals between the two Germanys ultimately would erode the allied responsibility for West Berlin, still the city's best guarantee for safety...