Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summit obviously furthers Brezhnev's ambition to draw closer to Europe and to confirm the status quo at a European Security Conference. It caps Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik, designed to improve West Germany's relations with its Communist neighbors. That may bring relaxation in Europe, but it may also bring new tensions and rival ries between the U.S. and Russia there...
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt will commemorate the announcement of the Marshall Plan, 25 years ago today, at a special convocation this morning in Sanders Theatre...
...Brandt will address an audience including American dignitaries who were involved in the formulation and implementation of the European Recovery Plan, which provided post-war economic assistance to European countries over a four-year period from...
...Moscow. Privately, though, they hoped that the treaties would pass, so that the party should not bear the onus of holding up detente. Thus both sides procrastinated until the moment of truth arrived-and the result was what one Bonn political observer describes as "a grade-B performance-Brandt and Barzel...
...confusion and chaos that have just ended inspired the quip that "Both sides have a chairman, but neither has a leader." In the wake of the vote, the quip seemed fully justified. Recognizing that his government could be brought down by a no-confidence vote at any time, Brandt asked the opposition to agree to hold interim federal elections. Barzel replied that his party would agree to elections-but only after Brandt had resigned. Despite the ploys and counterploys, it seemed likely that elections would be held in the fall...