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Over lunch in a Washington restaurant, a senior Soviet diplomat turned to a U.S. acquaintance. "You Americans are top dogs who are going down fast," he said. "We are underdogs coming up fast. We have Pompidou and Brandt going to Moscow. Heath is coming to get his astrakhan hat, and he might even get a keg of vodka too. They are turning our way. They are trying to strike bargains because they know we are moving up and you are moving down...
Last week in Warsaw, in a dramatic step toward conciliation, Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Jedrychowski and his West German counterpart, Walter Scheel, initialed a treaty designed to restore normal relations between the two countries and capped it with a champagne toast. The treaty, said Chancellor Willy Brandt in Bonn, would be "a liberating step toward a better Europe-a Europe in which borders no longer divide. That is what the youth of our countries expect and we no longer want to burden them with the past. Instead, we want to give them a new beginning...
...easing of tension by a process he described as deéenté, entente, coopération. He recognized the Oder-Neisse line as Poland's western border and urged Bonn to do the same. He also urged international acceptance of East Germany. The basic outlines of Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik were traced several years earlier by De Gaulle. In the Middle East, De Gaulle dropped his support of Israel following the 1967 war. Then, after reprimanding the Jews as an "elite, domineering people," he made overtures to the Arabs that were intended, his apologists maintain, to retain...
Nonetheless, the West remains so eager for some sign of movement on Berlin that the tentative Soviet agreement was generally hailed as progress, especially in detente-minded West Germany. Chancellor Willy Brandt is particularly anxious for a settlement in Berlin to buttress his shaky coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats. Still, if the Russians want to heighten tensions in the city again, they got the perfect pretext at week's end. A rightist sniper, who left behind handbills charging that Brandt was abandoning West Berlin, seriously wounded a Soviet sentry guarding the Russian war memorial in the British...
...Soviets were to try developing a wide spectrum of advanced technology on their own, they would have to give Russian scientists a freer climate of inquiry and increased intellectual exchanges with the outside world. The Kremlin's leaders are aware that West German Chancellor Willi Brandt, France's Pompidou and other Western statesmen hope to use trade as a means of converting Soviet society into one that would be consumer-oriented and less militant. But the Soviets are interested in trade only to enhance their economic strength and political power...