Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Danger of Reasonableness. On receiving the news, West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, the former mayor of West Berlin, hurried back from Vienna. Ironically, he had been on his way to Belgrade to seek President Tito's support for West Germany's new policy of easing tensions with the East bloc. In Bonn, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger held an emergency Cabinet session. In Paris, London and Washington, the allies, who guarantee West Berlin's security, conferred about what to do. The painful decision was to do nothing, aside from making a few perfunctory gestures. Kiesinger flew...
...West Germany's Social Democrats have depended for nearly two decades on the guidance of Herbert Wehner, a brusque, brilliant tactician whose devotion to the Socialist cause is equaled only by his towering rage at any dissent within his party. Second in the hierarchy after Party Leader Willy Brandt, Wehner formulated the policy that has shaped the party's destiny, including the decision to join the rival Christian Democrats in West Germany's historic Grand Coalition. Last week, in a move that was certain to have profound effects not only on the party but also...
Curing the Sniffles. The party's answer to Wehner, 61 and ill with diabetes, was a shift designed to reduce his influence. In the newly created post of party general manager, Brandt installed a trusted helper, Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 45. Now the minister for aid to developing countries, he will take over from Wehner the responsibility for getting the party into shape for next year's national elections. The appointment also meant that the Social Democrats, who under Wehner's influence have played down their differences with the Christian Democrats in the Grand Coalition...
...pity the poor Socialists. They always seem to get into trouble when they move out of the old ideologist neighborhood and associate with Center parties. Even more than Willy Brandt's Socialists in West Germany's recent state elections, Pietro Nenni's Socialist Party suffered a serious setback in the Italian elections...
...kids, who looked reasonably neat, approached me and asked to borrow a quarter," Harry Brandt Ayers, the victim of the attack, said yesterday. "As I reached into my pocket, he hooked his arm around my free arm and threw me to the ground," Ayers, 33, said...