Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...further heated by Christian Democrat Rainer Barzel's sweeping proposals for reunification in his "Unity Day" speech in New York (TIME, June 24). Barzel's concessions for reunification included leaving Soviet troops within a reconstituted Germany as a protection of Soviet interests in the "northern tier" of Warsaw Pact nations. Barzel believes that even in a "neutralized" non-nuclear Germany, with a legal Communist Party and Soviet presence, West German wealth and pro-democratic institutions would ultimately triumph...
...Certainly France and Russia - allies of old in the broad European context - have it in their power to change the structure of Europe. De Gaulle has already generated a new atmosphere in the Western alliance, and the Russians are under considerable pressure to alter the nature of their own Warsaw Pact. Whatever the outcome of the visit, De Gaulle in Russia will have a significant impact on the changes already taking place...
Charley Horse. As they deliberated, six foreign ministers of the Warsaw Pact nations-once known as Russia and its satellites-met in the gothic Spiridonovka Palace near the banks of the Moskva River. And what seemed to be on their minds? How to keep Rumania's nationalist-minded government from bolting, for one thing. Some sort of rapprochement with the West, for another. And what to tell Charles de Gaulle next week when he arrives in Moscow to talk about European unity...
...last week Gomulka seemed almost ready to strangle the cardinal. Government newspapers angrily accused Wyszynski of rupturing church-state relations and exploiting the church celebrations for his own "political ambitions." Radio Warsaw accused him of "fanning the conflict that he himself created for the sake of the most re actionary objectives." Zycie Warszawy, the government's prominent morning paper, came out for the cardinal's ouster from the church's leadership and his replacement by Archbishop Boleslaw Kominek of Wroclaw, the cardinal's second in command and a man considered more "reasonable" and pliant. But even...
...security." By the terms of the Soviet proposal, the U.S., not being European, would be excluded. Such a conference would also imply de facto recognition of East Germany. Thus the notion was ignored in the West, except by the Danes, who may well broach in Brussels a joint NATO-Warsaw Pact conference-including the U.S. But Washington has an antipathy to any major conference in which the outcome is cloudy, and even the Danes cannot see any way around the problem of East Germany's representation at such a gathering...