Word: ostpolitiking
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...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...
...Brandt would like to star at an October summit that would chart the Ten's course according to his vision of a strong united Europe that would work in close harmony with the U.S. This would help him allay the suspicions of many West German voters that his Ostpolitik has made the country too susceptible to pressures from the East bloc...
...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...
...summit obviously furthers Brezhnev's ambition to draw closer to Europe and to confirm the status quo at a European Security Conference. It caps Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik, designed to improve West Germany's relations with its Communist neighbors. That may bring relaxation in Europe, but it may also bring new tensions and rival ries between the U.S. and Russia there...