Word: brandts
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...some Moscow policymakers wonder if that stance serves the Soviet Union's best interests. One reason for this reconsideration is that West German elections will be held in September. As the Soviets see it, the West German leader of the 1970s will be either Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, a Socialist, or Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, a conservative. The Soviets reckon that a relaxed policy toward West Germany would aid Brandt's cause, while a continued hard-line stand would surely enhance the possibility that Strauss might some day elbow aside Kurt Kiesinger as Chancellor...
Though the Soviets would greatly prefer Brandt to Strauss-who they suspect will want nuclear weapons for West Germany-the Russians fear that any overtures to Bonn would enrage their most loyal allies, the East Germans and Poles. Such a departure would also ruin their rationale for having intervened in Czechoslovakia to crush an alleged West German plot to pull that country into the West's orbit. As last week's events in Czechoslovakia showed, the Soviets may need an excuse to remain there for some time...
Harvard's snow-shovelers, porters, lab-technicians, and food-servers are in store for some joyful recognition if Barbara Brandt...
...When we had that big snowstorm I noticed all the men shoveling show and chopping ice and thought it would be nice to acknowledge those people and all the others who work here," Miss Brandt said...
...Miss Brandt, secretary to Charles Abrams, Williams Professor in City and Regional Planning, is planning a Harvard Employees Appreciation Festival for later this Spring. She said it might include an exhibit of exployees' art, a party for students and employees with music by anyone who wants to play, and "anything else joyous, friendly, fraternal, gratifying or otherwise relevant that anyone would like...