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...detente in Europe between the Soviet Union and the West is the innovative Ostpolitik pursued by West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Until recently, the success of Brandt's flexible policy of accord with the Soviet bloc was virtually taken for granted in the chanceries of Europe. No longer. Today there is a very real danger that more than two years of diplomatic labors could be undone, possibly even drowning Richard Nixon's hoped-for "era of negotiation" in a renewed round of cold war invective. Improbable as it might seem-and to the distress of almost everyone concerned...
...Willy Brandt will deliver a major address on European-American relations at a special convocation at Harvard on June 5, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the announcement of the Marshall Plan...
...Brandt received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Harvard in 1963, at which time he was Governing Mayor of Berlin...
...many Western Europeans maintain exactly the opposite. As one West German editorial put it: "In this era of detente, it is all the more important that the voice of free opinion is not silenced." Even though his Ostpolitik seeks better relations with the Communist countries, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt obviously agrees. He has consistently rejected Polish and Soviet suggestions that the stations' licenses to operate from West German territory be withdrawn...
...testimony, the gang lacked neither ideas nor ambition. At one point, they planned to break into a Bundeswehr arms depot at Munsterlager; another time, they hoped to free captured members of their group either by staging a prison raid with a tiny homemade helicopter or by kidnaping Chancellor Willy Brandt and using him in a prisoner exchange...