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Defying the longtime policy of the Christian Democrats, Brandt called for recognition of the disputed Oder-Neisse line as the legal border between Germany and Poland; he thus became the first German politician to publicly cede the former German territories given to Poland by the victorious Allies in 1945. Brandt also differed with the Christian Democrats on the subject of the nuclear nonproliferation pact, asking for a quick and enthusiastic West German endorsement of the treaty. And, for good measure, he attacked the wait-and-see policy of the Christian Democrats toward the rightist National Democrats. Demanding an immediate constitutional...
...began when Ceylon, apparently emboldened by last month's decision of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to cede 350 sq. mi. of the worthless Rann of Kutch to Pakistan, suddenly announced that it, and not India, controlled the uninhabited island. The Ceylonese, who are predominantly Buddhist, based their claim largely on the fact that St. Anthony's church on Kachcha Tivu fell within the diocese of the Roman Catholic bishop of the northern Ceylonese city of Jaffna...
Pulling in to defend the cities, the allies have been forced to cede large areas of the countryside to the Communists. Except for the largest population centers, for example, the rich Delta is now almost entirely in Viet Cong hands. There is not a Delta road safe to drive on, by day or night. Massive quantities of supplies are moving through the Delta for the enemy buildup around Saigon, and U.S. reconnaissance planes now sight piles of enemy artillery shells flagrantly stacked out in the open. But people and goods cannot move in the Delta; fish rot where they have...
...Today's authoritarian regime must cede its place to free political life," he told the foreign correspondents he had summoned. "The country will be exposed to dangers that will undermine and may even destroy everything if freedom is not quickly restored." The junta, he said, "underestimates the Greek people, and especially the youth, if they imagine that it is possible to intimidate them with arrests and sentences." Thus, unintimidated but clearly courting arrest, Kanellopoulos openly challenged the authority of the junta led by Colonel George Papadopoulos...
...Zero Treks. The war took a heavy toll. Finland lost 115,000 men (nearly 3% of its population), also had to pay Russia huge reparations and cede part of its land. The losses taught Finland a lesson. President Urho Kekkonen, now serving his eleventh year in that post, realized that his country must retain the favor of its Soviet neighbor. While this has not meant alliance with the Soviets, it has led to a neutrality that slightly favors them. Kekkonen keeps up his ties with the Russians; few men can boast of having established personal relationships with Stalin, Khrushchev, Kosygin...