Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response has been remarkably positive. In an unusually long and cordial congratulatory telegram to Brandt, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin expressed hope for "an improvement in the relations between the Federal Republic and the Soviet Union." The East German press has also struck a more conciliatory tone. As Brandt himself is fully aware, there is always the danger that the Communists might be playing on Western hopes for peace, and will later pull back from negotiations for better relations with West Germany. For his part, Brandt must move cautiously in order to avoid charges in West Germany that...
...find it difficult to dislike West Germany's new Foreign Minister. Affable and engaging, Walter Scheel, who is also the leader of the Free Democratic Party, has the relaxed manner and quick wit of a Rhinelander. An adept mime, he delights in performing creditable imitations of other West German politicians. He loves to tell jokes, often making himself the butt. At a recent ball in West Berlin, for example, he showed up wearing a hand-lettered sign on his lapel that read in English: "Kiss me, I'm a Liberal...
...Americans, picked up during a door-to-door hunt by Viet Cong cadres who carried detailed blacklists. Similar graves were found inside the city and to the southwest, near the tombs where Viet Nam's emperors lie buried. Among those dug out were the bodies of three German doctors who had worked at the University...
Crumbs with Wine. For $30 a head, more than 100 correspondents were treated not only to nuances but to the best show in town. Conservative priests pitched curves at the liberal panelists; ladies from obscure papers posed puzzles that glazed the panel's eyes; a German asked his questions in Latin; and an Englishman periodically stood up to say, with plaintive sincerity, "I don't understand...
...months, international bankers have considered an upward revaluation of the German mark to be inevitable (TIME, Dec. 20). Last week Chancellor Willy Brandt's new government announced that the muscular mark henceforth will be worth 27.3 cents-or 3.66 marks to the dollar instead of the old four-mark rate...