Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before progress has been made on Berlin. Bonn retreated from that position quickly, since NATO long ago suggested such talks without prior negotiation. But the West Germans had a point when they pleaded that other negotiations should not be allowed to undermine or sidetrack the Berlin bargaining. Chancellor Willy Brandt, showing up unexpectedly at a meeting of NATO Defense Ministers at Mittenwald, Bavaria, emphasized that "new initiatives should not be permitted to serve as an excuse for lessening the intensity with which the negotiations over Berlin are being pursued." Later in the week, addressing a meeting of the Socialist International...
...closer economic and cultural ties with the West, were delighted. Some Western analysts argue that he was pressured by the Soviets into moving aside. According to that line of reasoning, Moscow grew weary of Ulbricht's obstructionist tactics, which hampered Soviet attempts to capitalize on Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik in order to secure Russia's western flank. Wolfgang Leonhard, a visiting professor at Yale and former ranking East German ideologue, who knows both Ulbricht and Honecker, leans toward the theory that old "Spitzbart" (meaning pointed beard) was nudged. Leonhard, a former aide of Ulbricht...
...necessity of "completely shielding" East Germany from contacts with the West. He also called on Bonn to ratify the renunciation-of-force agreements with the Soviet Union and Poland without waiting for the successful conclusion of the current Big Four talks about improving the status of isolated West Berlin. Brandt refuses to submit the Moscow and Warsaw treaties to the Bundestag until the allied custodians of Berlin-Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the U.S. -guarantee the untrammeled passage of people and goods between West Berlin and West Germany...
...crisis, Germany could not win agreement on a concerted European revaluation. After France and other Common Market countries made clear their opposition to revaluation, Schiller's proposal to let the mark float ran into considerable opposition within his own government. At a four-hour meeting in Chancellor Willy Brandt's house in the Venusberg section of Bonn, Foreign Minister Walter Scheel argued that a floating mark would foul up the Common Market's system of farm price supports, which assumes set relationships between the currencies of the Market's six member nations. Bundesbank President Karl Klasen...
Meanwhile the Free Democrats, whose 27 Bundestag delegates give Brandt a narrow six-seat majority, are also losing voters. In Schleswig-Holstein, the Free Democrats polled only 3.8% of the vote, and lost their four seats in the state legislature. The Free Democrats also lost their representation in Lower Saxony and the Saar. If the present trend continues, only the two big parties are likely to emerge intact from the 1973 national elections...