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...would do Kohl no harm to acknowledge a debt to a courageous and controversial predecessor. In 1969 Willy Brandt launched his Ostpolitik of reconciliation and rapprochement with the East. It was the first major sustained breakthrough of the cold war in Europe. Brandt went a long way toward allaying Soviet fears by signing a renunciation-of-force treaty with Moscow. He propitiated many of Germany's other former enemies by dropping to his knees in front of a memorial to the victims of the Warsaw ghetto. Most important, Brandt formally recognized the German Democratic Republic. He was criticized...
...officials used to grumble that Ostpolitik was a parochial policy that allowed the Soviets to cut separate deals with Bonn, drive a wedge into NATO and nudge the Federal Republic toward neutralism. When Brandt fell in 1974, more than one champagne bottle popped open in Washington...
Principal Nora Brandt, elected by the Bryan faculty to lead them in restructuring, began with the basics, repainting the rundown stucco building and starting a "Bryan Pride" campaign to boost children's self-image and team spirit. To pave the way for improvement, she hired several forceful, imaginative teachers. Today literacy is paramount at Bryan, where the student body is one-third white, one-third black and one-third Hispanic. Teachers stress writing and the classics. Each month 400 children are bused to the Dade County Public Library; parents receive a "reading tips" newsletter...
...small senate consisting of Brandt, an assistant principal, two parents and seven teachers makes proposals to the faculty, which votes on them monthly. Most teachers feel the system allows them to concentrate on what they do best. Says science teacher Jo-Anne Chumbley: "The people in charge here let you run your own show. I can do things that I wasn't able to do in 18 years of teaching...
...past. More than half of West Germans have been born since the end of World War II, and the theory of unchanging national character is demonstrably unscientific. In any case, the Federal Republic has operated a healthy and vigorous democracy for more than 30 years. As former Chancellor Willy Brandt has said, while it is true that there are nationalistic, right- wing groups in Germany, such movements also exist in East European countries, and the Soviet Union is home to the rightist, anti-Semitic Pamyat organization...