Word: scheele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following Moscow's lead. Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin last week received the West German ambassador in Moscow for the first time in more than a year. Kosygin also had a long and friendly talk in the Kremlin with an important political visitor from West Germany. He was Walter Scheel, the leader of the third-place Free Democratic Party. As West Germany's new President, Gustav Heinemann, a Social Democrat, celebrated his 70th birthday, there were among the presents he received 50 red roses. The sender: the Soviet ambassador to Bonn, Semyon Tsarapkin...
...showing their approval of politicians like Heinemann and Scheel, who both advocate a flexible approach toward the East bloc, the Soviets hope to influence the results of next month's national elections in West Germany. They are, in effect, suggesting that they would cooperate with a government of Socialists and Free Democrats to reduce political tensions in Europe. The implication, of course, is that Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's Christian Democrats, who have ruled the Federal Republic alone or in coalition since its founding in 1949, are blocking progress along that line...
Prodded by the U.S., Bonn agreed to carry more of the West's underdeveloped-areas burden about a year ago, when it set up a special aid ministry under a former private-business consultant, Walter Scheel. Since then, the West German government has provided or promised $1,425.000,000 in assistance funds to 45 countries, mostly in Asia and Africa, but also in Latin America. Most of Bonn's loans are in the form of long-term credits (12-20 years), and almost all of them are earmarked for such projects as factories and mines that encourage private...
...Foreign Aid Minister Scheel put it last week, "Too many people believe that countries which get our aid use it to finance diadems, expensive tea services, or the golden bed of some minister's wife.* There is not a single word of truth in it. In economics, as in everything else, there are political risks and surprises&151;but not golden beds...