Word: stoph
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...allow closer contact with West Germany until he feels that East Germans will no longer be tempted by better jobs and living conditions across the border. Now 76, Ulbricht might not be on the scene much longer, but the two men most likely to succeed him, Premier Willi Stoph, 55, and Deputy Party Chief Erich Honecker, 57, are likely to follow the same course. Yet neither Ulbricht nor his heirs can overlook the fact that some day perhaps the Soviets and other East Bloc comrades may become weary of allowing East Germany's leaders to stand...
...Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev showed up; so did Czechoslovakia's Party First Secretary Gustav Husak, who last April replaced Reformer Alexander Dubcek. But absent was the most inflexible hard-liner of them all: East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht. Pleading illness, Ulbricht stayed home and sent Premier Willi Stoph in his place...
...words with him, and then hurried across the border into East Berlin. The man was not a defector or a spy. He was a high-ranking West German official who carried in his black briefcase an important letter from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger to Premier Willi Stoph of East Germany...
...recently offered East Germany the prospect of more trade, large development loans and official talks at the sub-Cabinet level about easing travel and communications restrictions that now exist between the two countries. But it has not found the East German regime at all receptive. In fact, Willi Stoph recently replied to an earlier Kiesinger letter with a return missive demanding that Bonn renounce its "addiction" to neo-Nazism and militarism, abolish the capitalist system and spin off West Berlin as an independent "free city...
...failure, and there is little reason to believe that the most recent effort will have any atypical success. Responding to an appeal from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's Communist party boss, proposed this week that Kiesinger meet with East German premier Willi Stoph to "negotiate an understanding between the two German states...