Word: ostpolitiking
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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...
...candidates, Brandt is the unspoken favorite of both Washington and Moscow. The U.S. had initial misgivings about Brandt's approaches to the Soviet Union, but is now committed to his Ostpolitik and would like to see him carry on. So would the Soviets and East Germans. In a gesture obviously aimed at giving the Chancellor a boost-by pointing up the benefits of détente-the East Germans last week began giving "instant" or same-day passes to West Berliners who want to visit the eastern half of the divided city...
Barzel and the Christian Democrats would obviously like to ignore Ostpolitik as an issue if they could, and Barzel has made it plain that if he wins, he would not try to reverse Brandt's foreign policy accomplishments. As if to allay any doubts, the opposition leader pledged last week that he did not intend to alter whatever is "legally in force." He even staked a claim for possible Ostpolitiking of his own. "Those in authority in Moscow, Warsaw and East Berlin," he said, "would talk to us if it were in their interest...
...this election, the burning issue is not Ostpolitik but Stabilität. The big question is which party can best contribute to the continued stability of the German economy. The citizens of Limburg share the fear of inflation that is a national phobia throughout Germany...