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...preparatory talks on European security late this month and hold a summit finale in September. They see a full-scale conference as an opportunity to make permanent all of those borders that were redrawn to the Soviets' advantage at the end of World War II. As Willy Brandt did when Brezhnev visited Bonn, President Nixon will insist that the success of the conference must hinge upon a free flow of ideas and people throughout Europe...
...English edition of his collected speeches. On the floor was a small white spittoon. On a side table were that day's issues of the ten major Soviet newspapers. Nearby were photographs of his meetings with President Nixon in Moscow last year and with Chancellor Willy Brandt on the Black...
With these words, Steiner, a former Deputy in the West German Bundestag, admitted that in April 1972 he sold his vote to keep Chancellor Willy Brandt in power. Writing in last week's issue of the illustrated weekly Quick, Steiner (who is currently in hiding, probably outside Germany), confessed that he received 50,000 marks (about $20,000) from a member of Brandt's Social Democratic Party to abstain in a secret vote of confidence on the Brandt coalition government. By not voting against Brandt, Steiner betrayed his own party, the opposition Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), which expected...
...deputy, Brandt squeaked through with a razor-thin two-vote margin...
...series of revelations about a political scandal that West Germans have dubbed Watergate am Rhine. Although substantially different from the scandal enveloping the White House, the Steiner affair involves not just bribery but cover-up attempts and even espionage. It could cause considerable embarrassment-or worse-for Brandt and his coalition government...