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...post as chief of state, which may now become largely ceremonial. But for reasons of health, Ulbricht continued, he was giving up the position of party first secretary. As his replacement, Ulbricht named the party's long-time No. 2 man, Erich Honecker (see box). Willi Stoph, 56, who has been Honecker's rival, remains premier in charge of government affairs. "To be honest, the decision did not come easily," said Ulbricht of his retirement. "Unfortunately," he added, "no cure has been invented...
...Party Boss Walter Ulbricht dropped his old preconditions. In a speech published in Neues Deutschland, the official newspaper of the East German Communist Party, Ulbricht in effect accepted two of the points proposed by Brandt at last month's summit meeting in Kassel with East German Premier Willi Stoph. Though Brandt's suggestions had been brusquely rejected at the time, Ulbricht now said that he favored U.N. membership for both countries and the exchange of ambassadors at the ministerial level even before an agreement is reached on recognition...
...page riposte, Stoph ripped apart the underlying assumption of Brandt's Ostpolitik−that small steps in minor matters could ultimately lead to a rapprochement. Deriding Brandt's "arrogant demands," Stoph declared that East Germans would settle for nothing less than immediate diplomatic recognition. Stoph also rejected Brandt's thesis that two German states could exist within a single German nation...
Moscow's Order. After lunch Stoph was scheduled to place a wreath on the monument to Nazi victims in the center of town, but West German authorities were forced to cancel the ceremony because of unruly, Communist-dominated crowds. Fearful that the conference would end in a complete fiasco, a visibly nervous Brandt apologized for the crowd's behavior. Later, in a give-and-take session, Brandt volunteered that Bonn would eventually "solve" East Germany's demand for recognition if Ulbricht & Co. would only respond to his offers of closer ties. Though Stoph was unresponsive, he declared...
...Stoph's announcement reflected orders that he and Ulbricht received two weeks ago when they flew to Moscow to confer with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. The Soviets have just concluded five months of exploratory talks with the West Germans. The Russians, who hope to gain economic advantages from a deal with Bonn, do not want the East Germans to chill the diplomatic climate by breaking off contact at the very moment the Soviets are preparing to start negotiations with Brandt's government...