Word: scheele
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...blue-and-gold Lufthansa jetliner rolled to a stop at Cologne airport late last week, the waiting crowd broke into a cheer. Out stepped Foreign Minister Walter Scheel. He brought home from Moscow two red-bound leather volumes containing a renunciation-of-force treaty between West Germany and the Soviet Union that he and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had initialed only a few hours earlier. Perhaps unconsciously, Scheel spoke of accord in a phrase reminiscent of Bismarck's famed injunction to keep the line open to St. Petersburg, then Imperial Russia's capital. Said Scheel: "We have...
...possibility of European conciliation were formed during his years as the hard-headed young mayor of West Berlin. Later, as Foreign Minister in the Grand Coalition from 1967-69, he made his first serious approaches to the East. After the Social Democrats formed a ruling coalition with Walter Scheel's Free Democrats following the September 1969 elections, Brandt dispatched his most trusted foreign policy adviser, State Secretary Egon Bahr, to Moscow for exhaustive preliminary discussions...
Berlin Problems. When Walter Scheel reached Moscow three weeks ago, he insisted that the agreement make clear that Bonn was not renouncing Germany's right to reunification. From almost the beginning, the clowning and informal Scheel seems to have hit it off with the austere Gromyko. In the formal talks at the Spiridonoff Palace, Scheel stressed that Soviet concessions on Berlin were essential to any agreement. Specifically, he demanded signs of progress in the stalled four-power talks about Berlin. At one point, Gromyko snapped at Scheel: "Berlin is not your concern"-meaning that the divided city remains...
...last afternoon, Gromyko disappeared into the depths of the Kremlin, where the treaty was approved at a special session of the Politburo. In the early evening, Gromyko drove to the guest villa on Lenin Hill, where Scheel was staying, and the two made arrangements for the initialing of the agreement the next day, and for the exchange of two accompanying letters...