Word: ostpolitiking
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...Catholic Ukrainians, who have been forced into Eastern Orthodoxy by the Soviet regime. They have, he said, "sacrificed rivers of blood and mountains of bodies because of their fidelity to the Apostolic See, but they are defended by no one"-an obvious attack on Pope Paul's diplomatic Ostpolitik. The Ukrainians want an independent patriarchate, but the Vatican has refused because modern patriarchates are national churches. This would give encouragement to Ukrainian separatism, upsetting Vatican diplomacy toward Communism and the Russian Orthodox Church. In desperation, Slipyi and 14 bishops defied papal orders and held a well-planned rump "synod...
...only half begun, and he has a point. The Bundestag, where his party has only a slim majority, has not yet ratified the nonaggression pacts with Warsaw and Moscow. Franz Josef Strauss, a power in the opposition Bavarian Christian Social Union, urged only last week that Brandt abandon his Ostpolitik and "return things to where they were...
Breathing Space. In his private talks with Tito and the five-man Yugoslav delegation, Brezhnev irritated the Yugoslavs by praising at length the attitude of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. While welcoming any easing of East-West tensions, the Yugoslavs are apprehensive that Brandt's Ostpolitik might be interpreted as an acceptance of Soviet overlordship in Eastern Europe-an idea the Yugoslavs strongly reject...
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...