Word: ostpolitiking
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...medal is not always the kiss of death. The 1971 prize boosted West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and his policy of Ostpolitik, aimed at improving relations with Eastern Europe. Oscar Arias Sanchez can only hope that this year's award will have an equally beneficial effect...
...Chinese are careful not to portray their new Ostpolitik in terms that might offend Moscow. Still, Soviet diplomats in Peking have reportedly complained that China is trying to drive a wedge between the Soviets and their allies. Whatever the motive, the bold gambit in Moscow's backyard may reflect China's growing self-confidence in international affairs...
Some politicians in Bonn were not so ready to let the government off the hook. Former Chancellor Willy Brandt, chairman of the opposition Social Democratic Party and architect of Bonn's Ostpolitik in the late 1960s, denounced the "garrulous dilettantism" of Kohl's coalition. Christian Democratic Coalition Parliamentary Leader Alfred Dregger was singled out for blame. He had angered the East Germans by bluntly stating in an interview with the conservative daily Die Welt that "our future does not depend upon whether Herr Honecker pays us the honor of his visit." The East German Communist Party daily Neues...
DJED. Josyf Slipyj, 92, Roman Catholic Cardinal since 1965 and exiled leader of Ukrainian Catholics; in Rome. Imprisoned by the Soviets for 18 years, he was released in 1963 in a conciliatory gesture by he Kremlin to Pope John XXIII. But Slipyj remained unhappy about the Vatican's Ostpolitik, including its openings to the subservient Russian Orthodox Church. He campaigned publicly for the creation of a Ukrainian patriarchate, with himself it its head, and was bitter that both Paul VI and John Paul II denied him that out of deference to East-bloc relations...
...word was borrowed from the French, but the West Germans ushered in the new age in East-West relations with their own version, Ostpolitik (literally, Eastern policy). Its architect, Chancellor Willy Brandt, made a historic visit to Moscow in 1970 and signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union. About this time, President Richard Nixon indicated to the Soviets that he would be willing to engage in negotiations aimed at limiting the U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals. With the help of Henry Kissinger, Nixon also played his "China card" and traveled to Peking, putting Moscow on notice that...