Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, finally accepts an invitation to go to Washington. In February 1968, Erhard proposes to East Germany's Walter Ulbricht that joint plans be drafted for the formation of a German confederation, no longer insisting on free all-German elections or the tearing down of the Communist Wall as preconditions to the talks. Ulbricht is taken aback, but accepts when Erhard promises to renounce nuclear armament and maintain East Germany's socialist economy. Ulbricht wins congratulations from Pope Paul VI but is overthrown by a hard-lining Communist clique when public opinion in East Germany runs rampantly...
Seeking a Collapse. Obviously, no TV viewer expected The German Confederation to foreshadow actual events in Germany during the next nine years. But Rudiger Altmann's fantasy-and the excitement it caused-were symptomatic of the buoyant mood on both sides of the Wall, and a new attitude toward reunification. Thanks to the relaxation of cold-war tensions, Germans today are nursing a growing though still amorphous hope that a start toward a peaceful solution to the problem of a divided Germany may now be found. Few have the illusion that the frozen ice of Central Europe...
...have been insuperable conditions. He demanded public debates in both East and West Germany, with diplomatic immunity for all speakers-a clear challenge to traditional Bonn policy, which has declined to recognize Ulbricht's regime, holds him personally responsible for the shooting down of refugees at the Berlin Wall, and subject to arrest and trial for murder if he ever visits West Germany...
...perceptive appraisal of recent U.S.-Chinese relations. Even though he feels U.S. diplomatic recognition of Red China is the realistic thing to do, Gass cautions that the Chinese will not "jump with joy." For 13 years, he writes, the "government of China has devoted its talents to building a wall of misinformation and hatred between the Chinese people and the U.S." Until an effective balance of power is created in Asia, argues Gass, the U.S. must maintain its strength there. "It is perhaps a noble illusion that an honorable peace will come if only we rectify our errors," he concludes...
...push-up bars, paper holder and electric flush controls. And while on the subject, Kira thinks that the urinal could stand more study. Working with everything from splash diagrams to trajectory charts, the study group proposes a cavern-shaped urinal, suggests that it might pull down from the wall above...