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Brandt began his campaign in the border towns in part to point up the chief accomplishment of his three-year-old government. As he can justly boast, he has reduced "tension and confrontation" between the two Germanys and between the East and West blocs. By signing treaties with Moscow and Warsaw that renounced Germany's old land claims-and by accepting the division of Germany into what Bonn now refers to as "two states in one nation" -Brandt led the way toward détente in Europe. His early initiatives eventually led to a four-power agreement on Berlin...
...field. She does not simply shake a hand, she cuddles it in both of hers. She hugs, touches, pats, squeezes. She scoops up small children with easy endearments like "Dolly," or "Sweetheart." She almost never makes formal speeches, nor does she directly praise her husband. "I can't boast for my family," she explains...
...Olympic stadium makes the expense seem worthwhile. It is a convenient, comfortable oval that accommodates 80,000 (including 33,000 standees) within "human dimensions"; promoters boast that the maximum distance between spectator and competitor is only 212 yards. A javelin throw away is the swimming stadium, which is built with 80% of its structure underground lest it appear too imposing. A kind of super sunken bath, it has five pools on two levels, and amenities like a glass-enclosed express elevator to the high-diving platform. Over a nearby ridge is the cycle stadium, a space-age affair that looks...
...Protestant counterpart of the I.R.A. is the Ulster Defense Association, a formidably organized group of street-fighting soldiers who wear masks, combat jackets, British army chevrons and shoulder pips. Self-proclaimed saviors of Ulster's "Prods," they carry clubs and boast of having an arsenal of automatic pistols, rifles, submachine guns and grenades. As a group, U.D.A. members are mostly young and working-class; many are British army veterans, others graduates of the tough Tartan gangs. From Belfast, TIME'S London Bureau Chief Curtis Prendergast filed this report on their activities...
...Visitors of either sex are allowed every evening until 10 p.m., and all day on weekends. The idea may seem to some like "coddling criminals," but the centers can point to a long-term success: North Carolina pioneered in such centers 15 years ago, now has 63, and they boast a recidivism rate of less than...