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...deplore the freewheeling approach toward arms sales that the Administration has taken. This vision of realpolitik looks too much like a fool's politik, and the U.S. is setting itself up for disaster. If we do not get duped to the tune of $8.5 billion, we still stand a strong chance of watching a huge amount of sophisticated and lethal hardware end up in hostile hands. Obviously, America will be dealing in arms with its allies and those it wishes to be its allies for some time. But the imprudence of the Reagans and the Weinbergers must...
...Abrasimov's warning underlined the dilemma into which the Berlin affair has plunged the Osi-politik of the Grand Coalition. When he started the new policy 18 months ago, Brandt sought to establish diplomatic relations with all 'Eastern European countries except East Germany. Under pressure from Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's Christian Democrats and from moderates in his own Socialist party, Brandt retained the Federal Republic's old insistence that it, and not Ulbricht's regime, is the legitimate representative of all Germans, including those in East Germany...
...full hero's welcome, West Germany's President Theodor Heuss earnestly trundled about the country to New York (where he received an honorary L.H.D. from the New School's President Dr. Hans Simons, who attended Berlin's Hochschule für Politik with him some 40 years ago) from the Grand Canyon (which, in good statesmanlike fashion, he painted). Sampling the lighter side of U.S. life, Dr. Heuss bounced two miles in an old-fashioned buggy to a rodeo in Prescott, Ariz. (His comment: "I looked to see if they dressed the way cowboys...
...Saxon accent reveals a rich European background. Born in Leipzig, Germany, Neumann did his undergraduate work at the University of Leipzig and went on to Heidelberg and Grenoble in France for graduate study. Later, he joined the staff of the Deutsche Hochschule fur Politik in Berlin, the only political science school in Germany...
During the war, he helped train senior officers in military government and worked with the OSS in Washington. In 1949 he returned to Germany as a visiting expert on education and helped reestablish the Deutsche Hochschule fur Politik which had been dissolved by the Nazis. He also visited his old colleague, Theodor Heuss, now President of the West German Republic...