Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The flames that gutted a wing of Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque last August added an unwanted measure of heat and hatred to a conflict that is never far from flash point. Arab leaders, blaming Israeli negligence for the damage to Islam's third most sacred shrine, called...
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt has had less than three months to apply his Ostpolitik, so it is hardly surprising that he has not yet achieved any significant relaxation of tensions in Central Europe. Last week, in fact, Moscow stiffened its attitude toward Bonn by endorsing Walter Ulbricht's...
Easy Victim. Consider State Secretary Georg-Ferdinand Duckwitz, 65, who coordinates diplomatic policy toward the East Bloc. After weeks of wolfing down lunch at his desk and rushing from conference to conference, Duckwitz had to be sent home for a complete rest. A few days later, Foreign Minister Walter Scheel...
One effect of the upper-echelon exhaustion has been to prompt Bonn to ask the Czechoslovaks to hold off for a while on their formal requests for talks. Since preliminary talks with the Poles are expected to begin in Warsaw later this month and Bonn may also start new probes...
Suspected Plot. Some Western diplomats suspect that the Communists are flooding Bonn with requests for talks in hopes of overwhelming, and possibly outsmarting, weary West German negotiators. The only trouble with the hypothesis is that the Soviet Union is working its own top men pretty hard as well.