Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peter Brandt, son of West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, the Social Democratic candidate for the chancellorship. Just as his father was crisscrossing the country on a campaign train in search of voter support, the news broke that Peter had put his signature on a Communist front's petition accusing the U.S. of using poison gas in Viet Nam, and demanding withdrawal of American troops. It caused quite a flap for a day or two-until the boy withdrew his name. Both Sides of the Street. The octogenarian provided a more prolonged distraction. He was the Christian Democrats...
...whistle-stopping by train, auto, helicopter and frigate in Saxony, Schles-wig-Holstein and on the island of Helgoland, his audiences totaled well over 100,000, not only in rural areas, which are normally favorable to his Christian Democrats anyway, but also in cities partial to Opposition Leader Willy Brandt's Social Democrats. The response seemed to augur well for the campaign strategy Erhard's advisers have urged upon him, which is to mute his attacks on the Social Democrats, steer clear of elaborate matters of foreign policy, and present himself as an apolitical Onkel...
...latest opinion polls give them 48% of the "decided" vote, as opposed to the 45% they won in the 1961 election under Adenauer's fading leadership. Ever so slightly to the left of them are the Social Democrats, under West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, with 43% of the projected vote, up from 36% in 1961. Almost imperceptibly to the right are the Christian Democrats' junior coalition partners since 1961, Erich Mende's Free Democrats, who won 13% of the vote then, but are conceded only 7% this time...
...long as Erhard is running things. Last week he denounced a grand coalition as an S.P.D. "dream that it can coast through the finish line in the C.D.U.'s sidecar." The Socialists' Willy Brandt hinted that he would be only too delighted to join any coalition at all, since such talk could help him in the campaign...
...Brandt is one of Erhard's greatest assets. Cursed with an undistinguished television image and isolated in West Berlin from most voters, he has so far failed to develop into the charismatic personality the Socialists need. Moreover, despite support from students and intellectuals, his party has done little to exploit the latent "time for a change" philosophy that should militate in its favor after 16 years out of power. The party slogan, "Sicker ist sicker" (roughly, "Play it safe") is designed to reassure voters that, despite their Marxist origins, the Socialists are now a respectable, middle-class party...