Word: ostpolitiking
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...generation of medium-range missiles on West German soil to counter the Soviet buildup of its mobile SS-20 missiles. In a period of growing East-West tension, Brandt is nostalgically remembered by the growing number of West German pacifists as the Nobel Peace Prize-winning architect of Ostpolitik, the agreement with the Soviet bloc that enabled tens of thousands of families split between West and East Germany to be reunited...
...general tale of Vatican Ostpolitik has been told before, of course, in Norman Cousins' 1972 memoir and numerous other writings. Flamini draws on interviews with insiders and previously classified documents of the Vatican...
...President Richard Nixon abandons dollar convertibility, persuading Europeans that the U.S. will no longer act as guardian of the major international currency. NATO members show rising support for West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik, a rapprochement with the Communist bloc...
...Wall three days a month to minister to his West Berlin flock; later he was allowed 30 days in every three-month period. In 1967 Bengsch became the first East German to wear a Cardinal's red hat-a promotion that reflected Pope Paul VI's quiet Ostpolitik...
...skeptically belittled Brezhnev's promise to withdraw what she called "a few tanks and troops," Pravda promptly labeled her a "bellicose lady" and scoffed that "she tried on Winston Churchill's trousers but they don't fit." Bonn, meanwhile, was put on notice that its whole Ostpolitik of seeking peaceful relations with the East would be in jeopardy. Calling the missile issue "literally a touchstone," the Soviet news agency TASS warned that Bonn's inclination to go along with the NATO plan was in "clear conflict with the officially declared objectives of the German Federal Republic...