Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Prime Minister E. Gough Whitlam. It was Whitlam who announced on July 4, 1975, that the funds would go to the University. And it was supposed to be Whitlam here on Friday, making a speech that Harvard officials hoped would parallel the address that head of state Willy Brandt made at Harvard in 1972. Instead, the vicissitudes of Australian politics replaced Whitlam with Fraser, the leader of the conservative, big-business favored Liberal Party and a man with a distinctly different set of policies than Whitlam...
...response to the student unrest and terrorism of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although West German law already required all civil servants to defend and uphold the constitution, it was argued that new guidelines were required to specifically define "disloyalty." In January 1972, the then Chancellor Willy Brandt endorsed the decree, which barred people from public jobs if they were "members of organizations pursuing anticonstitutional aims...
...Laureate Heinrich Boll deplores the "new generation of hypocrites, toadies, opportunists, cowards and intimidated individuals who possibly will be more obedient than the Hitler Youth." The Social Democratic leadership now wishes that it had never heard of the measure, and has sponsored new, more liberal guidelines. Admits a chastened Brandt: "I erred at the time ... There have been gross deviations and grotesque abuses...
French President Charles de Gaulle acted "in the manner of a supreme commander asking for information from a sector commander" when he first met West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt in 1959. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, on the other hand, led the way to a well-stocked party when he welcomed Willy, then Chancellor of West Germany, to the Crimea years later. Brandt's account of both meetings is part of his upcoming memoirs, Encounters and Insights, the first installment of which appeared last week in the West German newsmagazine Der Spiegel. Lyndon Johnson, writes Brandt, was basically...
...reunion would be particularly wrenching for McCartney just as he is enjoying his first full success since the breakup. It might not be easier for anyone else either. Jenny Brandt, a 17-year-old McCartney fan, said it best as she waited to get into the Philadelphia concert. "Wings is doing good on its own, even though it'll never be the same as the Beatles. But I don't want them to get back together. It would be a super-let down. They could never produce the music they once did. It's a different...