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Breathing Space. In his private talks with Tito and the five-man Yugoslav delegation, Brezhnev irritated the Yugoslavs by praising at length the attitude of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. While welcoming any easing of East-West tensions, the Yugoslavs are apprehensive that Brandt's Ostpolitik might be interpreted as an acceptance of Soviet overlordship in Eastern Europe-an idea the Yugoslavs strongly reject...
Hitler's successor, Admiral Dönitz, now 80, called the Gehlen theory "complete nonsense." Tass described it as a "fabrication" aimed at disrupting attempts for an East-West détente in Europe. Certainly the manuscript, which contains a detailed analysis of Soviet political and military goals for the next two decades and calls for a parallel buildup of Western military strength, can only be welcomed by foes of Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik. That would include Die Welt Owner Axel Springer, whose criticism of the Brandt government borders on frenzy. Gehlen's memoirs could also...
...look beyond their shores that the Japanese find the world most troubling. Laments Shinkichi Eto, respected Tokyo University professor of political science: "Japanese leadership has no grand political vision, no long-range plan of national aims." That seemed not to matter very much through the long years of bipolar, East-West confrontation. "But now that the multipolar world is emerging," Eto adds, "the Japanese suddenly have no idea what they should...
...East Berlin-to consult, it was later disclosed, with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who had flown in to oversee the crucial final stages of the 17-month-old talks on the future of Berlin. Then, shortly after midnight, the sound of applause came from the open windows of the second-floor room where the Big Four ambassadors-from the U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union-had been negotiating for nearly 14 hours. The applause was abundantly justified; the ambassadors had reached a pivotal agreement in the drawn-out process of ending a quarter-century of East-West conflict...
Though the Berlin Wall may have become a permanent fixture, West Berlin's role as a pressure point in East-West relations may be coming to an end. Last week, after three days of marathon talks that ran for a total of 23 hours in West Berlin, the Big Four ambassadors (U.S., France, Britain and Soviet Union) were tantalizingly close to a broad agreement that would resolve important aspects of the long unsettled status of the isolated city. Washington officials caution that "while we are fighting over relatively few words, they're very important words." The negotiations will...