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...this failure, like a bad marriage that does not end, has demoralized, corrupted and embittered, as a simple defeat would not have. Viet Nam is the name of a catastrophe to the spirit. A fatally casual adventure-in-excess has done to America, he argues, what crossing the Rhine did to the Roman Empire in 6 A.D., what invading Holland did to Spain in the 16th century. The final consequence is a "devaluation in national identity," a collective loss in self-esteem that has left Americans profoundly confused about just what to do next...
Despite that factor, the driving bans have grievously hurt some European businesses. Sunday revenues of German hotels and restaurants have dropped as much as 30% to 70% since Sabbath driving was forbidden three weeks ago. The picturesque villages on the left bank of the Rhine between Bonn and Koblenz look all but deserted of tourists on Sundays. The Swiss ski industry is suffering; after two carless Sundays, crowds are thin at the resorts, and there is no waiting on tow lines. Skiers who usually arrive by car seem to be spurning the doubled train and bus schedules that the government...
Steiner's confession was the latest, and most startling, in a series of revelations about a political scandal that West Germans have dubbed Watergate am Rhine. Although substantially different from the scandal enveloping the White House, the Steiner affair involves not just bribery but cover-up attempts and even espionage. It could cause considerable embarrassment-or worse-for Brandt and his coalition government...
...days of Lyndon Johnson's breathless world tours At various times on Leonid Brezhnev's historic four-day visit to Bonn, television cameras caught the Soviet party chief kissing the hand of Chancellor Willy Brandt's wife Rut, bear-hugging the minister-president of North Rhine Westphalia, Heinz Kiihn, and talking to Brandt's diminutive foreign policy adviser Egon Bahr with both hands on his shoulders. Brezhnev grinned and waved at crowds so relentlessly, in fact, that his grandstanding seemed to nettle Brandt-no mean crowd pleaser himself when in the right mood. Once, as Brezhnev...
...Petersberg Hotel from the airport, a few anti-Brezhnev slogans appeared. In general, the mood was calm. That may have been because the security precautions in Bonn were the most stringent in the history of the Federal Republic. At least 6,500 police and border guards patrolled the Rhine-side capital; Brezhnev's temporary residence at the refurbished Petersberg was surrounded by guards. Only three mass demonstrations were authorized by the cautious local police-one organized by the pro-Brezhnev German Communist Party (D.K.P.) and two by right-wing groups protesting the visit...