Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity track team will be facing the best performers in the East today and tomorrow as it enters the IC4A championships at Randall's Island, N. Y. Penn State should win the title, but Yale, Maryland, defending champion Villanova, and the Crimson all could challenge...
Today's recess finds the Geneva Foreign Ministers conference bogged down in the third week of what the French have called the "dialogue of the deaf." Both East and West have put forth their plans, and to no one's surprise, they have been rejected...
...plan, and hence it is easier to dismiss. Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has asked that the Big Four sign separate peace treaties with the "two German states" and then undertake the joint administration of West Berlin as a "free city." Western acceptance of this plan means recognition of East Germany, abandonment of the traditional policy of re-unification through free elections, and admission that while the East Germans have a right to East Berlin as their "capital" West Berlin must remain under political tutelage--with a new and rather unpleasant addition to the tutorial staff...
...concessions, though extremely unpleasant, do not imply immediate surrender of any essentials. The trouble with this proposal is that it doesn't solve anything: West Berlin would be nominally free, but it would still be subject to extreme pressure from the outside; West Germany might be in NATO, but East Germany would remain in the War-saw Pact. The current crisis has taught the West that any negotiated settlement cannot leave Germany divided and Berlin a vulnerble island...
...equal states effecting a merger. The West, for its part, has insisted on immediate nationwide free elections and has rejected the federation concept. Its new plan, however, steps back from the traditional approach in several respects: elections are no longer immediate, but take place within thirty months; the East Germans will be in the minority on the commission to draw up an electoral law, but they will have a veto power...