Word: brandts
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...cover stories. But it was also an exceptionally heavy week for our World section. From Canberra to Jerusalem, a shock wave of seemingly global proportions has been rattling the foundations of governments, toppling or threatening world leaders with astonishing regularity. The resignation of West Germany's Willy Brandt and the downfall of Canada's Trudeau government signaled a new high mark on the political Richter scale. This has been a remarkable period for World Senior Editor John T. Elson, whose job offers a rare overview of the international scene. Presiding over a staff of 14 writers and reporter...
...mouth when he first learned of it, he might have impaired the cases of a lot of people who were going to stand trial." But negative sentiment was stronger. Said Morgan James, a telephone worker in Boston: "If he was concerned with the country, he would do what Willy Brandt did in Germany and resign for the good...
...West Germany, a spent and moody Willy Brandt stepped down after five years as Chancellor, deepening the shadows over the future of both detente and the European Community...
...Luxembourg. It is a matter of debate as to how Moscow reads the auguries. Surely the West's weakness at the top cannot be welcome to Soviet Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev, who has staked his hopes for detente largely on his personal dealings with Nixon, the departed Brandt and the late French President Georges Pompidou...
Cataclysmic Worries. In their private moments, at least some of the world's leaders might be tempted to agree. Only last March an article in the West German magazine Der Spiegel quoted an aide to Willy Brandt as saying that the Chancellor "sees everything breaking apart." Brandt was said to have decided unhappily that changes of governments had become meaningless spectacles, that real power was more and more in the hands of big corporations and other interest groups. The result could be increasing extremism on both the left and the right. If this went on unchecked, Brandt was said...