Word: bolz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rusk need not have bothered. Gromyko, calling pudgy East German Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz down to Geneva from Berlin to add drama to the scene, handed the U.S. a position paper proposing that a "free city" of West Berlin (same old entree) and the access routes be supervised by an international authority. Right there with it was the old demand that the Western powers withdraw their forces from the city and accept the sovereignty of the East Germans. Rusk instantly rejected the proposal. The U.S. had made it clear to Russia, both at Geneva and before, that...