Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kiesinger checks out all major policy decisions with Wehner, often spends evenings discussing new ideas with him. In fact, many Germans feel that it is Wehner, and not Brandt, who is the real architect of West Germany's new foreign policy, which aims at closer informal ties with East Germany and a general relaxation of tension with the East Bloc...
...planning any joint peace effort with the U.N.? "I don't have anything to announce on it now." Had the war in Viet Nam brought the world closer to World War III? "I don't think it would serve any purpose to speculate about that." Did that mean the President thought World War III was not very close? "Same answer." What about the intensification of fighting around the DMZ? "I wouldn't want to discuss that...
...Hungarian diplomats had played a key role in a short-lived effort to bring Hanoi and Washington together before and during the 1966 bombing pause, Budapest gave up all efforts to effect a settlement last fall and reportedly ordered Radványi to abandon mediation attempts. Devoutly believing in closer East-West relations, Radványi became increasingly-and, in the end, irrevocably-frustrated by his government's instructions, and opted for American citizenship rather than a Hungarian ambassadorship...
Despite some probable disappoint ments when and if the tariff cuts take effect on the scale indicated by the final bargaining, the free world should move a step closer to economic unity...
...President's decision will bring the American armed forces and ARVN (the Army of the Republic of Vietnam) into closer cooperation in what is coming to be considered the central task of the war--winning the allegiance of the South Vietnamese people...