Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NATIONAL election, coming next Sunday, might bring a change in the nature of the ruling coalition. A slight shift in votes from the CDU to the SPD might replace Chancellor Keisinger with SPD leader Willy Brandt, since the two parties are now almost evenly balanced in the Bundestag...
...droop-mustached Grass is carrying on his highly personalized crusade on behalf of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He is not a member of the party, but nonetheless feels closely linked to it because of leftist leanings and his personal friendship with SPD Leader Willy Brandt. On the stump, Grass has also been spreading a nonpartisan gospel of his own. Germans, he maintains, must shake off their ingrained submission to authority and tradition and participate more actively in government affairs. "People leave too much to the parties," he says. "What we need in this country is a more active citizenship...
...much of a role drugs played in their world is hard to discern. Columnist Steve Brandt says that Sharon gloried in her pregnancy, sunning herself in a bikini while pregnant. When asked if she was taking drugs, she told him, "Steve, I would do nothing to jeopardize the baby." Sharon was described by some friends as a serious actress with a wide range of interests-dance, music, fencing, skiing-and by others as a vacuous bathing beauty who was capitalizing on Polanski's fame...
...speeches begin in 1965, when Grass campaigned for Willy Brandt, mayor of Berlin, then attempting to become Chancellor. In an essay not reprinted in this book, Grass explained, "The writer can become the conscience of his nation when he throws over his desk for a while, and, as a citizen, engages in politics." As a campaigner for Willy Brandt, as a critic of Willy Brandt for allowing the Social Democrat Party to join in the Great Coalition with the Christian Democrats, Kurt Kiesinger's party, and as a president critic of Kiesinger, who took the Chancellorship with a Nazi past...
...Hungry. Ria's daily guest list is usually a West German Who's Who and who's hungry. Foreign Minister Willy Brandt may be eating at one table; he dines bei Ria so often that she refers to him familiarly as "der Willy" and sees to it that his after-dinner coffee always contains the shot of rum he favors. At another table may be West German President-elect Gustav Heinemann. Berlin's Mayor Klaus Schiitz, a patron since his days in the Bundestag, is always seated at the same table overlooking the garden: he usually...