Word: ostpolitik
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...from Russia in recent years. But German politicians, particularly many in the Social Democratic Party (SPD) - the junior member of Christian Democratic (CDU) Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition - have long felt a special responsibility for keeping a line open to Moscow, from Willy Brandt's Nobel Prize-winning Ostpolitik in the 1970s to former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's much criticized acceptance, at the nomination of Russian gas giant Gazprom, of a key post on a pipeline project he had backed while in office...
Brandt's Grand Design. For West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who flies to Moscow this week for the formal signing, the treaty marks the first crucial success of his Ostpolitik. That is his grand design, which envisions a united Western Europe living in peace with its neighbors to the east...
...became a successful businessman and politician in Frankfurt, and rose to become a trusted aide of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, in charge of Brandt's schedule and relations with his own party. Brandt was trying to calm the Cold War and reconcile the two Germanys through his "Ostpolitik," which Guillaume's reports confirmed as a genuine shift in policy. To keep Brandt from losing a no-confidence motion, Wolf paid 50,000 marks to a corrupt West German deputy to switch his vote. But all the while, Guillaume continued to vacuum up secrets to transmit back to Wolf...
...guidelines are contained in a 182-page style manual and an 83-page list of proper names plus phrases or words that TIME may spell in ways that differ from standard dictionaries (racquet, kidnaped). The manual and word list are constantly evolving. Foreign words, for example, are italicized (contras, Ostpolitik) until they have entered the language (détente and nouvelle cuisine...
...both sides, the advantages were clear-cut: by last year, trade between the two Germanys had reached $5.3 billion, providing an estimated 70,000 jobs on both sides of the border. On a more personal level, Ostpolitik allowed tens of thousands of German families to be reunited, a process that continues. Western influence flows steadily eastward on the airwaves: more than two-thirds of East Germany's population live within range of West German television, and most of them tune in regularly...