Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underlined the dilemma into which the Berlin affair has plunged the Osi-politik of the Grand Coalition. When he started the new policy 18 months ago, Brandt sought to establish diplomatic relations with all 'Eastern European countries except East Germany. Under pressure from Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's Christian Democrats and from moderates in his own Socialist party, Brandt retained the Federal Republic's old insistence that it, and not Ulbricht's regime, is the legitimate representative of all Germans, including those in East Germany...
Those desires are unrealistic at present, because the Christian Democrats refuse to go along with them. Many of them, on the contrary, favor a return to a far tougher line with the Soviet bloc and argue that West German concessions are likely only to encourage Ulbricht to tighten his grip on West Berlin. As they see it, deals between the two Germanys ultimately would erode the allied responsibility for West Berlin, still the city's best guarantee for safety...
After a Bundestag debate, the Grand Coalition of Christian Democrats and Socialists decided to take a few short-range measures to bolster Berlin somewhat, to encourage investment in the city and arrange for more air travel to and from it. Meanwhile, West Germany's NATO allies agreed to ban many East German businessmen and officials from their countries and to levy a $5 fee on travel documents for other East Germans visiting Western Europe. The steps were mild enough, but they were all the West seemed prepared to do for now to counter the new threat to the continued...
Billy Budd Fletcher Christian Aaron Burr Alexander Hamliton
Another conglomerate, the P.D.M. is a center party that has tried without notable success to be a tertium quid between Gaullism and Communism. The P.D.M. inherited the mantle of the Fourth Republic's Christian Democratic Mouvement Républicain Populaire. Economically progressive, Europe-minded and pro-U.S., the P.D.M. is still far from the balance-of-power position between left and right that the M.R.P. enjoyed, but may pick up more seats...