Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Germany and negotiated the first ransom arrangements for East German prisoners. Much of his interest in reunification dates from that time, but his proposals last week served a more immediate purpose as well. They were bannered on Page One of every major West German newspaper and were the topic of furious debate throughout the nation. A reporter in Washington asked Barzel, shortly after he had conferred with Lyndon Johnson for 40 minutes on the subject, whether he was satisfied with the uproar he had caused. He beamed, "Very." For Barzel makes no apologies for being an ambitious...
Student protest was far from the only topic on commencement speakers' minds, and for every dose of Nytol administered by a dull orator, someone else delivered No Doz in the form of a fresh phrase or a sprightly idea. Some of the best...
...power by restricting itself to the study of one village. Hitler is hardly mentioned. Instead we are constantly reminded that the soldiers and henchmen are Czechoslavakian themselves, often residents of the village. The film thus shows us jealous neighbor persecuting more fortunate neighbor in an almost vigilante fashion. The topic is indeed timely for, if we can believe C. L. Sulzberger, this kind of persecution is taking place today throughout Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia, where the overseas Chinese and other minority groups are constantly subject to attack under the guise of anti-Communism...
...staying close to the news is also a matter of conviction as well as temperament. Reston is practically obsessed with the importance of the newspaper's educational role. (In forty-minute interview recently, that was the only topic on which he volunteered a comment-and he spoke with fervor when he did.) And newspapers can best perform this role by showing the significance of current events...
...attitude is reflected in the curious scheme for a meeting of speakers from East Germany's Communist Party and West Germany's opposition Social Democrats to debate reunification (TIME, April 15). In both East and West Germany it has become the top topic of private and public debate, even though Ulbricht probably raised the idea in the first place because he thought neither Social Democrats nor Christian Democrats would take it seriously. When the Social Democrats accepted, naming May as an appropriate time, Ulbricht imposed what would in earlier years have been insuperable conditions. He demanded public debates...