Word: brandt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expert of Sadat's meeting with Peres, "yet now we accept such talks between Israel and Egypt with nonchalance." American officials also noted that both sides had favorable words about certain aspects of a four-point plan on the Middle East proposed by former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Austrian Chancellor Kreisky...
...Brandt-Kreisky proposal calls for some Israeli withdrawal from each section of the occupied territories (Sinai, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Gaza), with the exact location of peace boundaries to be determined in negotiations. Other points: demilitarization where necessary in the territories to be surrendered, Israel's right to unspecified security measures, and the right of Palestinians to participate in negotiations that would determine their political future...
Such shaky origins apparently do not bother true believers. Actress Julie Newmar is convinced. Jackie Gleason checks his charts before an important engagement, and Gil Brandt, vice president of the Super Bowl-champion Dallas Cowboys, is also convinced that biorhythm "has a lot of validity." There are a growing number of adherents on N.F.L. teams. Minnesota Vikings Player Jim Marshall was intrigued when someone pointed out that his classic wrong-way run for a touchdown in 1964 came on a triple...
...found to command a vast net work of agents that ranged over the entire North American continent. Today the KGB cooperates closely with the East German Ministry for Security, which in 1972 successfully planted an agent, Günter Guillaume, as a close aide to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Guillaume spirited NATO defense and other secrets out of West Germany until his arrest in 1974. Last year French counterintelligence (the DST) broke up a spy ring that gave the Soviets information about the advanced Mirage-2000 fighter plane and NATO defenses. Israeli officials were shocked in 1972 when they...
Towering above them is Rembrandt van Rijn, the greatest Dutch artist of the 17th century and one of half a dozen supreme draftsmen in the history of the West. The show contains ten Rem brandt drawings, and to see them in the context of work by his more gifted students is to be reminded of the difficulties of attribution. They imitated just what, one would think, was inimitable in his style: Ferdinand Bol, for instance, got Rembrandt's quick hooking line down so pat that he reproduced it unconsciously. They could not, however, approach the beautiful, sure clarity with...