Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first was in West Berlin. Angry over scheduled congresses there of former war prisoners and of "expellees" from once German lands now held by Poland and Russia, the East German Communist regime imposed the severest curbs on travel in or out of Berlin since the 1949 blockade. For five days, said the East Germans, no West German would be allowed to enter East Germany or East Berlin without a special pass. The East Germans also warned the allies against flying "militarists and irredentists" into West Berlin along the air corridors that link the city with West Germany...
...huffing did not really hurt. West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt announced that his government would pay the air fare of any West German prevented from traveling to Berlin by train or car. and in well-publicized defiance of the East German threats, allied planes proceeded to fly in delegates to the rallies. But at check points along the land routes, many an ordinary West German was turned back, and traffic piled up for miles as East German cops carefully checked the background of the occupants of each...
Guerrillas & Acrobats. Following in the master's foot steps. Russia's European satellites are also hard at work infiltrating Africa in a carefully planned joint campaign coordinated by the East Germans. Since 1958, more than 800 African students and labor leaders have "matriculated" at both ordinary universities and special institutes in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Leipzig and East Berlin. Simultaneously, East German trade and cultural missions have been estab- lished in Ghana, Guinea, the Sudan, Nigeria, and in the Mali federation and Cameroon, where Communist parties and Red guerrillas (who had made earlier Moscow pilgrimages) already existed. Within...
...wartime 1941 Britain and the Soviet Union, seeking a supply bridge, suddenly occupied Iran, dividing it in two. Only then did Mohammed escape his father's shadow. Suspecting the old Shah of German sympathies, the Allies shipped him off to bitter exile in South Africa (where he died in 1944) and propped 21-year-old Mohammed on the Peacock Throne. When Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin chose Teheran as the site of their 1943 meeting, they did not even bother to let Mohammed know they were coming...
...only political problems but domestic ones. Though his father sired four daughters and seven sons, the Shah still has no male heir to his throne. In 1948, after she had borne him one daughter, he divorced Egypt's Fawzia and three years later married the handsome half-German, half-Iranian Soraya. Despite Soraya's famed fiery temper, it was with regret that the Shah divorced her in 1958, apparently convinced that she was barren -a charge that makes Soraya angry...