Word: brandt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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West Germans were stunned when Willy Brandt resigned as Chancellor last month after his longtime aide Gunter Guillaume had been arrested on charges of being an East German spy. They were startled again when Günther Nollau, head of Bonn's principal internal security agency, the BfV, conceded in a television interview that other spies of "Guillaume's caliber" were probably operating at the highest levels of govern ment. Now the country is reeling from a third shock: allegations that Nollau himself has been an East German...
...warning from the East German regime that there are hidden dangers in detente. According to this reasoning, the East Germans have achieved the international recognition they want from détente, but now refuse to open their country to more contacts with the West. Thus, by embarrassing Brandt, the East Germans hope to discredit Ostpolitik in Bonn and reduce the pressure for internal change...
...Nollau caper suggests that some right-wing West Germans, with their own political reasons for wanting to discredit Brandt's successors, have decided that spy hysteria can be as useful to them as it is to the Communists...
Goldman, who helped establish the $30-million German Marshall Fund, announced two years ago by then German Chancellor Willy Brandt, said he hopes that more gifts from German Foundations can be arranged...
Goldman also said he has invited Brandt to return to Harvard in the near future as part of his own efforts to improve U.S.-German relations. He added that the German Marshall Fund and German corporate gifts to Harvard were not "repayment" for the Marshall plan, which was also announced at Harvard...