Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly, everything began to go wrong. The Luftwaffe's Starfighters rained down from the skies, generals resigned, a U-boat sank, prices rose. Worst of all, estimates for the 1967 budget showed a $1.5 billion deficit, largely because of huge purchases of U.S. weaponry. By law, German budgets must balance. So in September, Erhard flew off to Washington in hopes that President Johnson would agree to a reduction of the arms purchases, which were intended to offset the cost of maintaining U.S. Forces in West Germany. President Johnson plainly decided that the U.S. needed the deutsche marks more than Erhard...
...crisis until Erhard would be forced to call new national elections; then, possibly, the Socialists could take it all. But Kiesinger was persuasive. To allow Germany to flounder indefinitely, he warned, would undermine the public's faith in the democratic system. Together, the two parties could, he promised, give German politics and prestige a new start. Wehner was impressed by the arguments. Brandt was also willing, because he was eager to get at least one hand on the levers of power so that he could initiate a more flexible policy toward the other Germany that surrounds his beleaguered city...
...parties can avoid stalemate, they may be able to tackle successfully some of the big problems facing Germany. Until now, no German government has ever had the two-thirds majority required by the constitution to overhaul the country's dilapidated political system. The grand coalition, of course, does. It will probably, for example, change West Germany's election system from proportional representation to direct balloting in order to stop the free-riding splinter parties from proliferating and to give the big parties a better chance to obtain clear majorities. The coalition will also have the opportunity to straighten...
...rapprochement." But Kosygin embarrassed his hosts when, at a purely ceremonial luncheon, he impulsively attacked what he called the resurgence of "the forces of fascism and war" in West Germany. This not only violated all protocol; it also hardly pleased De Gaulle, who is anxious to encourage the new German government in its desire for closer relations with France...
Born. To Romy Schneider, 28, Austria's slinky movie minx, and Harry Haubenstock, 45, German theater director she married last July: their first child, a son; in West Berlin...