Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fell at a time when the Federal government under Kurt Keisinger and Willy Brandt, Albertz's predecessor at the Schonberger Rathaus, seeks frantically to expand its contacts with the East. Bonn has sent delegations in recent months to most of the Eastern European states to work out trade agreements and to pave the way for an exchange of ambassadors. The Germans must move carefully in this, for they must not in their eagerness suggest to Russia that they are competing for the favor of the East European states. Nor can they forget, however appealing forgetfulness on this point might...
Reuter's successor was Brandt. Brandt's men introduced the file card and the Kennedy-style tactics into German politics. By 1959 the leftists were so outman-euevered that Brandt was receiving support from the heavily working-class district of Wedding. There was only one leftist delegate to the party conference that year...
...East-bloc allies is the main cause of tension within the Grand Coalition. Kiesinger is under increasing pressure from the right-wingers of his own party not to go so far in seeking to deal with the East. Herbert Wehner, the chief Socialist tactician, and Socialist Foreign Minister Willy Brandt insist that the government must keep on trying even in the face of continued negative responses...
...traditional Socialist stronghold of West Berlin. A far-left group wants West Berlin to become a neutral "bridge" between East and West, while others maintain that West Berlin must remain committed to the West for protection. Caught in between the two factions, Mayor Heinrich Albertz, 52, who was Brandt's successor, last week found himself so isolated that he resigned. Alarmed by the disarray in Berlin, Brandt sent in as a replacement his No. 2 man in the Foreign Ministry. He is Klaus Schiütz, 41, a native Berliner who, as a student in 1948, helped found...
...largely in the hands of a score of put-and-call dealers operating on the periphery of the securities field without stock-exchange memberships. Now there is so much action in options that the large brokers have begun to shed some of their disdain. "Puts and calls," says Steve Brandt, head of the option department at Bache & Co., "are growing faster than any other part of the securities business." President Sidney D. Harnden of the Put & Call Brokers & Dealers Assoc. expects a volume approaching 50 million shares within a few years. "The industry," he says, "is just starting to spread...