Word: press
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mood is West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who took office last month. As Foreign Minister in the old Grand Coalition of Christian Democrats and Socialists, Brandt had argued since 1966 that West Germany should attempt to normalize its relations with Iron Curtain nations. As Chancellor, he can now press his ideas even more vigorously than before. He is eager to increase trade, travel and communication agreements and establish normal diplomatic relations with Eastern European governments, which Bonn snubbed for years. Moreover, as proof of his realistic approach, he is believed ready to renounce Germany's claim...
...most positive response so far to Brandt's overtures has come from the country that suffered most under Nazi occupation: Poland. The Polish press, which normally rails at West Germany as a haven of unregenerated Nazis, called Brandt's inaugural address a "step forward." The Polish trade mission to West Germany has also started bargaining for an economic agreement that goes far beyond any deal previously negotiated by an East Bloc nation with the West. Totaling nearly $1 billion, the deal would give Poland access to West German credit, production licenses, patents and marketing procedure in return...
According to reports from Moscow, the Ryazan branch of the Soviet Writers Union recently yielded to party pressure to expel Solzhenitsyn from the organization. The move was taken to punish the 50-year-old author for "conduct unbecoming a Soviet writer," for "actively using the bourgeois anti-Soviet press for anti-Soviet propaganda," and for failing to combat the use of his name abroad. Since the ouster places a stigma on Solzhenitsyn, it means, in effect, that no Soviet editor would dare accept his works for publication...
...programs. He notes deep resentment in Latin America over the way in which U.S. aid programs have all too often been "distorted to serve a variety of purposes in the U.S. having nothing to do with the aspirations and interests of its neighbors." Rockefeller feels that the U.S. should press for increased trade within the hemisphere. Doubling present volume by 1976 would be "realistic" but attainable only by revising U.S. quotas and tariffs on such Latin American exports as coffee, sugar and meat. Equally important is the easing of cumbersome aid restrictions. Along with loosing "tied" aid dollars, a step...
...long silence? "If you give an interview to one magazine," he explains in the current issue of Rolling Stone, "then another one'll get mad. People don't understand that the press, they just use you to sell papers. And, in a certain way, that's not bad, but when they misquote you all the time, and when they just use you to fill in some story, it hurts because you think you were just played for a fool...