Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nickel was born in Berlin, has been covering Germany for four years. He was able to get a 45-minute interview with Kiesinger an hour after he took the oath of office-the first interview granted by the new Chancellor. On hand to help were Correspondent Gisela Bolte, our German economics specialist, and Stringer Burton Pines, who is working for a doctorate in modern German history. European Economic Correspondent Robert Ball, stationed in Zurich, came to Bonn for the story; Ball is an old German hand who had put in an eleven-year stint in Munich and Berlin...
...York, Senior Editor Edward Jamieson had a team equally bristling with expertise. Texas-born Writer David Tinnin spent four years studying history and philosophy at Heidelberg University. When he left Germany in 1953, he took away several all-German sports awards for his track ability-and a German wife. Researcher Ingrid Krosch grew up in New York with her German parents, knows Germany well. Researcher Mary McConachie worked for three years on a British Foreign Office project on postwar Germany...
...going was tough for the Belgians, for example, when the Germans smashed into the country in 1914. In the crisis, King Albert, once known as a playboy, bravely led the fight against the invaders. As Barbara Tuchman wrote in The Guns of August, "Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King." The going was tough for the Danes when the Nazis occupied the country on April 9, 1940. Next morning the distressed Danes saw their King Christian on horseback, riding as he always...
...Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 62, holding in one hand the constitution of the republic and raising his other with its fingers held as for a blessing. Kiesinger, who until a few weeks ago was virtually unknown outside West Germany and known within it mainly as the Minister-President of a German state, then took the oath of office as head of an unprecedented government: a grand coalition of the two major parties?the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats?that have bitterly fought each other for years. A union of black and red, it was a marriage of convenience?...
...coalition government could only have been put together in today's changing Germany. Because it will control an overwhelming majority of 90% in the Bundestag, it will have no effective opposition. Together the two parties will thus be able to undertake some badly needed reforms in German politics and make changes in German policy that neither would have the strength or courage to tackle alone. In foreign affairs in particular, the grand coalition will speak for Germany in a way that no single party ever could?and some changes are clearly in store...