Word: brandt
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...Soviets also got Brandt to push their idea of a nuclear "free zone" in Scandinavia. NATO would agree not to install any weapons in the region, but the Soviets remain vague on whether they would dismantle any such arms on their side of the border. Franz Josef Strauss, the conservative candidate who opposed Schmidt in last year's election, charges that Brandt has allowed himself to become part of "Brezhnev's psychological warfare aimed at intimidating the West...
...left wing of the Social Democratic Party that was so quick last week to criticize the U.S. decision to make the neutron bomb looks for its inspiration to an old familiar figure who is happily playing a new role. Willy Brandt, 67, is suddenly back in the news, both at home and abroad-going to the Kremlin to discuss disarmament with Leonid Brezhnev, standing under the Arc de Triomphe at his friend Frangois Mitterrand's inauguration, initiating a North-South conference in Mexico in October that will be attended by President Reagan. Some West German politicians regard Brandt...
...Brandt's return from political oblivion is remarkable considering how far he had fallen. Seven years ago he resigned as Chancellor when it was revealed that one of his most trusted aides was an East German spy. In 1978, weakened by excess weight and a drinking problem, he suffered a ravaging heart attack that, in his own words, brought him "to the border between life and death." The next year Brandt announced his intention to divorce his wife of 31 years. With his drinking under control, today Brandt's buoyant step and year-round tan symbolize the dramatic...
...Brandt has plunged again into public life at a time when Schmidt is under increasing attack. Unemployment has been climbing steadily since Schmidt's reelection last October, as Europe's most fabled economy slowed. Most important, Schmidt is at odds with his party's left wing, which opposes the government's support for NATO'S decision to place a new generation of medium-range missiles on West German soil to counter the Soviet buildup of its mobile SS-20 missiles. In a period of growing East-West tension, Brandt is nostalgically remembered by the growing...
Schmidt was privately irritated when Brandt took it upon himself to travel to Moscow in June to discuss the missile issue directly with Soviet President Brezhnev. Upon his return, he spoke well of the so-called zero solution to disarmament, a proposal to have the U.S. agree not to deploy any new Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe while requiring the Soviets only to begin negotiations about the removal of the 250 SS-20s already in place...