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...three-day meeting was the first formal conclave on East German soil between East and West German leaders since Chancellor Willy Brandt helped launch his Ostpolitik in 1970 by meeting with East German Premier Willi Stoph in Erfurt, 40 miles east of the frontier. Initiated by the East Germans, the weekend summit had been twice postponed because of East-West friction over the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the continuing crisis in Poland. A further irritant was provided last year by the Honecker government's new currency regulations, which greatly increased the cost of travel from West...
...warmonger intent on destabilizing the global military balance by trying to achieve nuclear superiority. After a visit to the Kremlin, Michael Foot, leader of Britain's Labor Party, which favors unilateral nuclear disarmament, reported that "the Soviet Union is sincere in wanting peace and meaningful arms negotiations." Willy Brandt, the former Chancellor of West Germany, declared after meeting with Brezhnev that the Soviet leader "trembled for world peace...
...Since Brandt launched his Ostpolitik (policy looking to the East) in 1970, West Germany has become more closely involved with the U.S.S.R. Says Countess Marion Donhoff, publisher of the liberal Hamburg weekly Die Zeit: "We once again assumed our traditional place in the center of Europe. As a result, Bonn must to a certain extent take into account the reactions of the East...
...must help the underdeveloped countries climb out of poverty, has been an article of Third World policy for decades. The immediate inspiration for Cancún came from a report published last year by an 18-member independent commission on international development headed by former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Among its proposals: major aid transfers to the Third World; reform of international lending agencies to provide cheaper credit to the Third World; stabilization of oil and commodity prices to benefit the developing countries. The Brandt report also urged that leaders of the industrialized North and the underdeveloped South gather...
...Brandt's successor, Helmut Schmidt, vowed repeatedly that Guillaume would serve his full 13-year sentence, and many West Germans still believe he should have done so. But the official attitude began to change as Guillaume's health deteriorated. Earlier this year he was moved from Rheinbach prison, outside Bonn, to a hospital for treatment of a kidney disorder and high blood pressure. In the end, the Bonn government decided that this was the best time for his release. As a West German parliamentary leader put it last week, "If we had waited any longer, the market value...