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...record 64.5% of the popular vote. Communism's Wall has done nothing to reduce their solidarity. Last week, urged on by posters that warned "Whoever stays at home votes for the Wall," 90% of eligible West Berliners trudged through foggy, snowy streets to give able Mayor Willy Brandt, Reuter's protégé, a landslide victory for another term in office. Brandt's Socialists got almost 62% of the 1,571,820 votes cast; in the workers' stronghold of Wedding, the district which Brandt chose as his personal constituency, he won more than...
BERLIN, Feb. 17--West Berllners gave Mayor Willy Brandt a landslide victory and slapped down the city's Communist party in a municipal election today...
...first city balloting since the East Berlin wall went up in August, 1961, Brandt's Socialists won 89 of the 140 seats in the city's parliament and got 61.9 per cent of the popular vote. They had 77 seats in the old 133-member parliament...
...winter dusk settled over West Berlin last week, Mayor Willy Brandt threw a switch. Instantly, 400 Christmas trees lining the 25 miles of the hated Communist-built Wall burst into twinkling lights-beacons of freedom for the sullen population of East Berlin...
...threatens the Chancellor's reputation, or tries to influence the date of his retirement or his plans for a successor, it washes away his dignity and vision. There were his childish assaults on Dr. Ludwig Erhard when it seemed that the Chancellorship, and his campaign of vilification against Willy Brandt. At the moment he appears to be under going an extended lapse, which his most faithful lieu-tenants (Herr Dufhues and Herr Krone) no doubt recognized last week: they called upon him, as if to wake him up, to reassert control of his party and country...