Word: brandts
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...will halt briefly at the small town of Gerstungen on the border between West and East Germany. There an East German engine and crew will take over to pull the train the remaining 40 miles to the ancient city of Erfurt. The next morning, when West German Chancellor Willy Brandt steps from his sleeping car at the Erfurt station, he will be greeted by Willi Stoph, the Premier of the German Democratic Republic...
...sensational breakthrough in the tense and frigid relations between the two German states. But it is highly significant that the meeting is being held at all. Only last week, the East Germans seemed ready to torpedo the Willy-Willi meeting by insisting on impossible demands, most notably that Brandt travel to East Berlin without setting foot in West Berlin, the city he served as mayor for almost a decade. Refusing to take nein for an answer, Brandt suggested a meeting in any other city. To Bonn's amazement, the East German regime proposed Erfurt as the site...
...speech after speech, Brandt stresses that his Ostpolitik begins in the West. "We are not marching out in front, as some people claim," he told Tinnin and Bonn Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate over a light Moselle in his house on Bonn's Venusberg. "We are only trying to catch up. Each of our allies has more normal relations with the East bloc than we have." Yet, as Brandt presses on with his Ostpolitik, he may indeed get far out in front of his allies. A key question is future U.S. troop strength. In his recent State of the World...
...Europe. If the Nixon Administration says that it intends to withdraw large numbers of American troops, the U.S. and its NATO allies will lose the opportunity to use those troops as a bargaining counter for comparable force reductions by the Warsaw Pact countries. By the same token, Willy Brandt will not be able to negotiate equitable settlements in Central Europe if the U.S. undercuts his position by withdrawing a large part of its forces. "The Federal Republic is no wanderer between two worlds," Brandt has declared. The implication is that Brandt's chosen world-the West-must stand firmly...
...remolded them into a party designed to capture the young and the educated middle class. Among other things, the "Sozis" pledged to shorten obligatory military service from nine to six months and clearly profited from a recent lowering of the voting age from 20 to 19. In addition, Willy Brandt's election as the Social Democratic Chancellor of neighboring West Germany helped Kreisky's party to overcome residual Austrian fears of the red Bürgerschreck ("Burgher's Terror") stemming from the 1930s, when Socialists and conservatives battled on the streets of Vienna...