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...German states and in effect end the cold war in Germany (TIME, Nov. 20). Now Bonn has let it be known that when the treaty is signed on Dec. 21, the pens will be held not by Brandt and East German Premier Willi Stoph but by their state secretaries, Egon Bahr and Michael Kohl...
...treaty was concluded in a remarkably short time?three months from the beginning of formal negotiations in August. At first, East German State Secretary Michael Kohl demanded nothing less than recognition as a foreign country by West Germany, including an exchange of ambassadors. West Germany's Chief Negotiator Egon Bahr deflected that demand, and the representatives of each country will probably be known as "ministers plenipotentiary" in the other's capital, with the personal rank of ambassador...
...toward détente in Europe. His early initiatives eventually led to a four-power agreement on Berlin, the first direct negotiations between the two Germanys, and an improved climate for an international conference on European security. Between now and November, Brandt and Chief West German Negotiator Egon Bahr hope to reach agreement with the German Democratic Republic on a treaty that will define the relationship between the two states and establish formal contacts. If they succeed, it will be a notable advantage...
...gung-ho stanzas and dying of a mosquito bite en route to the Dardanelles, a dozen real poets like Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen were cut down. Georges Braque was shot and lived, but the war deprived the 20th century of the mature work of Franz Marc, August Macke, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Umberto Boccioni and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, as well as that of a young sculptor named Gaudier-Brzeska who might well have rivaled Brancusi in his contribution to modernism. One of the saddest casualties was a German who never fought, the sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck. "Who stayed behind after...
...Ballet. There is something basically appealing about a tribute from one artist to another, and the principal role would seem to be tailor-made for the mature genius of Dame Margot, now 52. She plays a turn-of-the-century operatic diva who meets and dazzles a younger man (Egon Madsen) at a cocktail party. Then, in a swirling dream sequence, she recalls the four great loves of her past. Realizing that amour is now beyond her, she sends the youth away and stands alone onstage with her memories as the curtain falls...