Word: ostpolitiking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BRANDT IN THE CRIMEA: Following the signing of the Big Four agreement on Berlin last month, the Soviets unexpectedly invited West German Chancellor Willy Brandt to fly to the Crimea for talks with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Brandt, anxious to get his stalled Ostpolitik back on schedule, quickly accepted. During three days of meetings last week at the secluded village of Oreanda near Yalta, Brandt told the Soviet leader of his concern over the second phase of the Berlin negotiations, involving talks between the two Germanys over access provisions of the agreement. The talks were bogging down over West...
...East-West détente in Europe. Certainly the manuscript, which contains a detailed analysis of Soviet political and military goals for the next two decades and calls for a parallel buildup of Western military strength, can only be welcomed by foes of Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik. That would include Die Welt Owner Axel Springer, whose criticism of the Brandt government borders on frenzy. Gehlen's memoirs could also be an overdramatized effort at self-justification...
...sheer cynicism, President Nixon's new Ostpolitik is not without historical precedent...
...political strength. If London opts to stay out, the French would be tempted to play up to Moscow, and perhaps also to Britain, as a hedge against West German hegemony in Western Europe. Another bad effect would be the undermining of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik. Brandt cannot hope to establish a sound and peaceful basis for relations with the Communist nations unless he is backed by a strong, united Western Europe. An isolated Germany, moreover, has undertaken irrational and tragic actions in the past. In the U.S., Western Europe's failure to unite would intensify...
...been able to create a contrapuntal dialogue of ideas. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt defended his treaty with the Soviet Union as a necessary forerunner of general East-West détente; Arthur Goldberg subsequently scolded Brandt's U.S. critics, notably George Ball, for endangering the Ostpolitik effort, and got scolded in turn by Ball for trying to foreclose discussion of Brandt's policies. The Times became the first major paper to pinpoint an ideological split within the ranks of American conservatives when Op-Ed allowed Economist Rothbard, a onetime contributor to William Buckley's National Review...