Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a need for an active responsive citizenry to voice its feeling through elected representatives, he said. The increasing strength of the executive branch of the government has made this especially important now. Passivity can do a great deal of harm, he added...
...Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder and 26 for C.D.U. Parliamentary Leader Rainer Barzel. One reason was that Kiesinger had been away from the Bundestag for eight years, thus had fewer enemies. He also had a powerful friend: Franz Josef Strauss, the burly boss of the Bavarian branch of the party, which had publicly endorsed Kiesinger the day before. Another was that he fitted the C.D.U.'s concept of a candidate by being not too Gaullist to alienate the party's Atlanticists and not too Catholic to offend the Protestants. But the main factor in Kiesinger's success...
...West trade already is clipping along at a $10 billion rate this year. Although more of the goods involved, from Renault and Fiat cars to a U.S. petroleum-cracking plant, are Eastbound, the Communists still stand to make money out of the deals. No Western bank is allowed a branch in Moscow, but the Russians already have banks in London, Paris and Beirut that earn attractive commissions by cutting red tape, handling paper work and removing the risk for Western exporters by discounting their bills in advance. Now, with trade on the increase, they have opened a new bank...
Local Touch. Along with the Narodny bank, which also has a highly successful Middle East branch in Beirut, the Russians operate the Banque Commerciale pour 1'Europe du Nord in Paris. Founded in 1921 by expatriate White Russians, the B.C.E.N.-as Parisians call it-was sold to the Communist government in 1925, has since become a major Paris bank and has assets of $624 million. Like the new Wozchod bank in Switzerland, the B.C.E.N. operates with a mainly local board; the president is Guy de Boysson, 45, a French nobleman who once held Communist Party membership...
...that has contributed to the tragedy that is Vietnam. Is it really such an awful shock that students will react with "unmannerly" and "impolite" demonstrations? Is it the bad manners of students demonstrators that has killed 6000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese? Or is it an Executive branch that, with as little open discussion as it can get away with, continues to drag a divided American people and a reluctant and brutalized Asian people into a larger war? ROBERT GINSBURG...