Word: germans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats' Scheel began to consider the possibility of a more lasting alliance with the Socialists. Engaging and affable ("I'm a court jester, just a king's fool"), Scheel is nonetheless Considered to be a skillful politician, who, as Foreign Minister, will bring a light and sensitive touch to German diplomacy...
...Communist who masterminds the party's strategy. A terrible-tempered, pipe-smoking father figure, Wehner exercises absolute control over the ideological direction of the party. He will be Brandt's most influential adviser, and is likely to retain the Cabinet post of Minister for All-German Affairs that he held in the Grand Coalition...
Opinion surveys show that the majority of students are willing to accept the existence of East Germany as a separate state and to write off the territory beyond the Oder-Neisse line. German students have a deep revulsion to any thing that reminds them of Hitler?and that sometimes includes their own parents. At the same time, students who only a few years ago looked to the U.S. as a model are now somewhat disenchanted, largely because of the Viet Nam war and U.S. racial disturbances. German students are also strongly antimilitaristic, a fact that will probably prompt the Socialists...
...agreed to create a new form of money, called Special Drawing Rights, that will help finance the-continued growth of world trade. In August, France devalued the franc without causing any real tremors. Last week the value of one of the world's most important currencies, the West German mark, was established not by government fiat but by the free market...
...Germans did not intend anything quite so grand. They simply could not think of any other way to stave off a speculative crisis. Convinced that a new socialist government would raise the value of the mark, speculators clamored to buy German money. In just 90 minutes of trading on the morning after the election, $250 million poured into the Bundesbank from abroad. The outgoing Kiesinger government was in no position to stanch the flow by making the mark more expensive; that is the sort of basic decision traditionally left to the new government. Instead, the Bundesbank freed the mark...