Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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 in a U.S. Air Force plane...
...Socialists in Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's red-black Cabinet have provided the thrust for most of the Grand Coalition's major advances; Socialist ministers halted West Germany's first postwar recession, initiated a bold new foreign policy toward the East Bloc, and presented the first full-scale revision of Germany's outmoded penal code in a century. Ironically, Social Democrats got no thanks from the West German voters, who seem to give the credit for the Grand Coalition's successes to the Christian Democrats. In fact, by joining the government, the Social Democrats have sacrificed...
...special party congress in September. Dubček, however, had to make certain concessions last month to visiting Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. He promised, for one thing, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Warsaw Pact by permitting "staff exercises" in Czechoslovakia of troops from the Soviet bloc. The soldiers, most of them from the signal corps, were prompt to arrive. At week's end, the first of about 3,000 Soviet forces crossed the Russian border into eastern Slovakia even as the Central Committee was in session. Many Czechoslovaks were alarmed, seeing their coming as an unsubtle attempt...
...polls, outdistancing him by nine points in the Gallup sampling of Democrats reported last week. In April, Kennedy led by four. Humphrey has labor backing and strong support from businessmen, who by and large still distrust Bobby. He has even been gaining among younger voters?ostensibly Kennedy's strongest bloc. The May survey, however, was taken before Indiana and Nebraska: these and future primaries could affect the polls in Kennedy's favor...