Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record 64.5% of the popular vote. Communism's Wall has done nothing to reduce their solidarity. Last week, urged on by posters that warned "Whoever stays at home votes for the Wall," 90% of eligible West Berliners trudged through foggy, snowy streets to give able Mayor Willy Brandt, Reuter's protégé, a landslide victory for another term in office. Brandt's Socialists got almost 62% of the 1,571,820 votes cast; in the workers' stronghold of Wedding, the district which Brandt chose as his personal constituency, he won more than...
...Brandt's victory was no surprise, for West Berlin traditionally votes Socialist. What was startling was the size of the Socialist gain, and the sharp loss suffered by the West Berlin faction of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union. C.D.U. Deputy Mayor Franz Amrehn lost to a little-known Socialist, and overall C.D.U. strength in the Berlin House of Representatives dropped 25%. There were, of course, local issues, but no one doubted that the C.D.U. suffered from the tarnished image of Adenauer's national party, which has been slipping in local and state elections. Recent discontent...
...early for the Christian Democrats to start building up a new candidate, whether he turns out to be Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, the fast-rising Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, or one of the party's dark horses. As for a Socialist candidate for the chancellorship, Willy Brandt, who was beaten once by Adenauer, was sure to be it again. And Willy was willing. "My work might be more needed elsewhere," he said...
...Spectrum. It is still quite a struggle, but the New Leader, founded in 1923 by old-line European socialists, is very much alive and has attracted 4,500 new readers-a 19% increase-in the last year. Its strong point is still foreign affairs: when West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt wanted a forum during the 1961 Berlin crisis, he sought out the New Leader. "But others were finally catching up to us in this field," says Editor Kolatch. "Our spectrum needed broadening...
...first city balloting since the East Berlin wall went up in August, 1961, Brandt's Socialists won 89 of the 140 seats in the city's parliament and got 61.9 per cent of the popular vote. They had 77 seats in the old 133-member parliament...