Word: ostpolitiking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highly personal contest between two strikingly different men. On the one side is Willy Brandt, 58, the popular, outgoing Chancellor, who comes over on television as "our Willy"-and a statesman besides. He set in motion a whole movement toward détente in Europe, with his innovative Ostpolitik. If the election were merely a popularity contest or a plebiscite on foreign policy, Brandt would win handily...
Barzel hopes to enlarge C.D.U.'s traditional bloc of businessmen, white-collar workers, farmers, women and older voters by suggesting that West Germany, between radicalism and Ostpolitik, is edging much too close to socialism. Franz Josef Strauss, a florid speechmaker and political infighter, already warns darkly against what he calls Brandt's "social Communist regime...
...Brandt, and one from which he must recover quickly, since the party's whole campaign is built around the Chancellor's personal popularity. The Social Democrats plan to capitalize on Brandt's achievements in foreign affairs, most notably his 1971 Nobel Peace Prize and his innovative Ostpolitik. By election day on Nov. 19, he may even have achieved his biggest diplomatic success to date: a drafted and initialed treaty with East Germany. Another success was an agreement last week to establish diplomatic relations with Peking...
Asahi's test was in three parts. A general-knowledge section contained questions on such varied subjects as the Japanese constitution, dollar convertibility, ancient Japanese literature, West Germany's Ostpolitik and the chemical formula for polychlorinated biphenyl. There were five separate items on the proper reading of difficult Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese language. Next, candidates had to translate into Japanese newspaper articles in one of five languages: English, French, German, Chinese or Russian. Finally, a composition segment called for a concise news article on "my student life...
...Communist leaders of Eastern Europe, the conciliatory Ostpolitik of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is laden with peril as well as promise. Brandt's offer of closer ties promises to bring Eastern European nations considerable economic benefits. But conciliation withBonn has already robbed the Communist regimes of the propaganda argument among their own people: that only Communism and Soviet power offer protectionfrom "revenge-seeking" West Germans. Relaxation of East-West tensions might also expose Eastern Europeans to Western influences that could make them far more dissatisfied with their own rigid social and political order and more eager for Western...