Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open to any reasonable compromise. At a Communist rally in East Berlin, Khrushchev casually announced: "We would not mind even if U.S., British, French and Soviet troops-or some neutral countries-maintained minimum forces in West Berlin." Scarcely had Khrushchev said it when Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt rejected the "offer" out of hand. It was, declared Brandt, no more than a scheme to get Soviet troops into West Berlin and "cook the city over a slow fire...
...Bonn's steely old Chancellor Adenauer. Chief victim of this gambit was Erich Ollenhauer, colorless leader of West Germany's Social Democratic opposition, who incautiously accepted an invitation to go and talk with Khrushchev in East Berlin, so long as no Communist East Germans were present. (Socialist Mayor Brandt, cagier than his party boss, coldly refused a similar invitation.) Ollenhauer emerged from his two-hour talk with Nikita with the announced conviction that "all efforts are being made on the Soviet side to avoid a conflict." But, being a little inexperienced in such methods, he discovered later that...
Believing that the state's troubles lay primarily in its concentrated industry rather than in liberal economic measures, Williams, Walter Reuther, and Louis Miriani, the mayor of Detroit, asked for a $380 million federal area redevelopment bill to broaden the base of the economy...
President Griswold also announced this afternoon that he has "launched two separate studies, one in cooperation with Mayor Lee and with other city officials concerning law enforcement policies and procedures, and the other with Yale Deans concerning University procedures...
City and University officials were distressed over the collapse of town-gown relationships. Mayor Richard C. Lee was "too upset" to comment, and Griswold, calling the riots "boorishness," confined undergraduates to the campus until this morning...