Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brainstorm of Dirk Tillen, a Düsseldorf producer who knew that Scheel, 54, was not only a member of the Düsseldorf Men's Glee Club but an irrepressible baritone who would even toss off a ditty or two at birthday parties for Chancellor Willy Brandt. The curiosity factor alone, Tillen reasoned, would sell discs. An added inducement was the promise that profits would go mainly to one of the Foreign Minister's favorite charities -handicapped children. Scheel immediately jumped at the idea, brushing aside complaints from top aides that cutting a record was beneath...
Only a year ago, the Times of London wrote about Willy Brandt: "It is almost inconceivable that he would not be elected President of Europe against any competition." Brandt had just won a decisive re-election victory, and his Social Democrats were widely expected to stay in power for another decade at least. Today the West German Chancellor clearly finds his job so frustrating that he would welcome a way to renounce it with grace...
Like Gulliver, Brandt is entangled in a network of Lilliputian political problems, and they are crippling his leadership. Amid the portents of disaster -or rather above them, which is part of the problem -stands the Nobel Peace prizewinner, usually silent, often indecisive. His personality has always been elusive, and associates say that it is becoming more so. He wants to be liked, and so he avoids personal confrontation.He remains aloof from battles or postpones dealing with them until they balloon out of all proportion to their basic importance. To those around him, he increasingly gives the impression...
...Even Brandt's major achievement, Ostpolitik, which opened West Germany's dialogues with Eastern Europe, is now under criticism as being more theater than substance. Instead of his promised increase in the exchange of people and ideas between the two Germanys, there has been a crackdown by East Germany's Communist rulers on contacts with the West...
Inside Germany, the Brandt government has pledged to give workers' representatives not just a voice, but an equal voice in company policymaking. It proposes to require all major German corporations to establish boards composed of equal numbers of workers' and stockholders' representatives, with an impartial chairman acceptable to both sides. At present only the coal and steel industries have to give labor that much say, but the idea is moving beyond German borders. In Switzerland three trade unions have petitioned the country's Parliament to call a national referendum on labor's right...