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Headlined Die Zeit: WILLY BRANDT HAS RETURNED. Exulted a Social Democratic strategist: "Brandt has given the party an issue." In fact, East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht gave the Social Democrats the issue by offering to start the dialogue in the first place. Social Democratic Deputy Chairman Herbert Wehner persuaded Brandt, who was cool to the idea at first, to accept. Since then, Brandt has made the cause his own. He conducted the negotiations, indeed decided to lead the debate himself, dramatically announcing that he would even resign his office as mayor and go simply in his nongovernmental capacity...
Petra Kipphoff, Associate Literary Editor of Die Zeit, while he agreed basically with O'Tuama, felt that moralists should not be universally condemned "because many of them act with the best interests of their communities at heart...
...hostility toward them was vented on Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and the CDU-which could conceivably lose the national elections in September over the Middle East fiasco, as CDU strategists privately admitted. But the issue went deeper than German politics. Protesting against the "new wave of distrust," Die Zeit in a front-page editorial noted that there is a "new generation" of Germans which knows Nazi crimes "only from history books and which therefore finds it hard to comprehend that being a German is a flaw of birth. For the sake of this generation, we may be forgiven for saying...
...Protest-Weary." Leonhardt, 43, is eminently qualified to answer that question. As cultural editor of Hamburg's prestigious weekly Die Zeit, he knows Germany inside out; seven years in England as a foreign correspondent taught him also to know it outside in. Published in Germany under the title X-Mal Deutschland (X-times Germany), this John Gunther-like look at both Germanys sold 300,000 copies and raised many a hackle-or wattle, as Leonhardt would...
...Trial. Last week a transcript of Brodsky's trial filtered out to the West. Published in Hamburg's responsible weekly Die Zeit, it spoke volumes about the fate of the abstainer in Russia today...