Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personality cult. For two weeks before Ceauşescu's 55th birthday in January, the entire government press became a giant birthday card with Comrade pictures and Ceauşescu." greetings to "beloved Congratulatory messages were actively solicited, and in they poured, including salutations from Richard Nixon, Willy Brandt and Mao Tse-tung. The personality cult has extended to Ceauşescu's wife Elena, director of a chemical research institute. At her husband's instigation, she was elected to the Communist Party's 185-member Central Committee. "You might say the personality cult...
German Chancellor Willy Brandt is unhappy. He had hoped to attend next week's Social Democratic congress in Hannover with a renewed sense of strength as a result of his electoral victory last November. Instead, he is bothered, beleaguered and beset on all sides...
...Europe, at least in the first half of 1973. British Prime Minister Edward Heath's refusal to protest the bombing probably enhanced a personal relationship with Nixon that was already regarded as easy and smooth. The President is also on good terms with both Georges Pompidou and Willy Brandt, although the White House has never been particularly comfortable with the Brandt government...
That does not mean, of course, that Americans closely follow European affairs. Quite the contrary. Since the passing of De Gaulle, Adenauer and Churchill, there have been no giant European personalities who really attract their attention, although Brandt appears to be much admired, still largely for his reputation as West Berlin's courageous mayor. There is a tendency for Americans to be crisis oriented, and the crisis in recent years has been Viet Nam, not Europe. Americans also like the exotic and, with Viet Nam over, Asia beckons once again in more appealing ways than before...
...came only 17 days after the dollar's second devaluation since December 1971. "There is no rational justification for such enormous quantities of dollars to pour into West Germany," said British Prime Minister Edward Heath, who arrived in Bonn for a long-planned conference with Chancellor Willy Brandt the day the crisis broke. Economists obviously agreed. Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, asserted: "On the question of how much in foreign goods a dollar will buy, U.S. currency may well no longer be out of line...