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...West German capital elates from Sept. 27, 1969. one day before the elections that brought Brandt to power. "It was another coincidence," says Gate, "that the house my wife and I finally rented turned out to be only 100 meters from Brandt's house on the Venusberg above Bonn...
...speech after speech, Brandt stresses that his Ostpolitik begins in the West. "We are not marching out in front, as some people claim," he told Tinnin and Bonn Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate over a light Moselle in his house on Bonn's Venusberg. "We are only trying to catch up. Each of our allies has more normal relations with the East bloc than we have." Yet, as Brandt presses on with his Ostpolitik, he may indeed get far out in front of his allies. A key question is future U.S. troop strength. In his recent State of the World...
...Andrew Jackson's mud-booted backwoods supporters swarmed into the White House for Old Hickory's Inaugural Day reception. Celebrating his election last week as West Germany's first postwar Socialist Chancellor, Willy Brandt invited all comers to his official villa on Bonn's exclusive Venusberg, overlooking the Rhine...
...term. Lars, 18, whose blond hair almost reaches his shoulders, said last week that even though he considers himself a member of A.P.O. (the far-left Anti-Parliamentary Opposition), he favored his father's coalition. But he expressed serious reservations about having to move from the Brandt home in Venusberg to Bonn's Palais Schaumburg, the residence of German Chancellors...
...throne, he summoned Wagner from Stuttgart, installed him in a Munich suburban house, bankrolled the first productions of his most famous operas. Atop the Munich Residence he built a huge greenhouse with a lily pond. Floating in a barge clad as Lohengrin, he watched slides of the Venusberg cast on the walls by a projector, while a hidden orchestra played Tannhäuser. Though World War II bombs shattered the greenhouse, the red-cushioned barge has been reinstalled on a blue-lit lake of mirror...