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Despite these praises, there are real difficulties. Recognizing the need to rejuvenate the Western alliance, Kissinger proposed last April a "new Atlantic Charter" (later redesignated a "Declaration of Principles" after West German Chancellor Willy Brandt complained that the original name sounded too much like the Allies' World War II pact), which was to redefine the principles of cooperation in such varied fields as military security, monetary reform, trade, energy, science. Eventually the blueprint was to include-in most fields other than security-Japan as well. But the Kissinger proposal for the "Year of Europe" has been coolly received...
First Taste. West Germany fears especially the Nixon-Brezhnev Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War, which calls for urgent bilateral consultations in the event of the risk of nuclear war, but provides for only subsidiary talks with America's European allies. Chancellor Willy Brandt got a first taste of the agreement when he received no more than a vaguely worded letter from Nixon only 48 hours before the agreement was signed. From Bonn, TIME Correspondent Bruce Nelan reports that "the reaction to the nuclear agreement was a collective gasp in Western Europe. Almost everyone believes that De Gaulle...
...past month, the West German press has been publishing stories hinting that bribery had saved the Brandt government. When Steiner's name first appeared, he admitted that he abstained from voting against Brandt, but did so, he insisted, for ideological reasons, not for money. But then, a la Watergate, bits and pieces of evidence surfaced. The national daily Die Welt reported that shortly after last year's crucial Bundestag vote, Steiner bought himself two Mercedes and a Mini-Cooper...
...momentum of the scandal builds as West Germany's press features it on Page One every day. As with Washington's Watergate, newspapers and magazines frantically scramble to dig up new clues with which to scoop each other. Brandt's dispirited C.D.U. opponents have enthusiastically embraced the Steiner affair as a means of discrediting the Chancellor. They have demanded that a Bundestag special investigatory committee, established last week, find out whether Brandt knew about the bribes and whether the internal security force deliberately failed to inform the C.D.U. that Steiner was giving information about the party...
...investigation, declaring his willingness to testify before the committee. Yet, even if it appears that he did not know about the bribes, the deepening mess will likely dim his image. More worrisome, the corruption and venality in Bonn that the investigation is revealing could, in the extreme, topple Brandt. His demise could rekindle the familiar fears about the stability of West Germany's relatively young democratic institutions that accompany the nation's major political crises...