Word: ostpolitik
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wall three days a month to minister to his West Berlin flock; later he was allowed 30 days in every three-month period. In 1967 Bengsch became the first East German to wear a Cardinal's red hat-a promotion that reflected Pope Paul VI's quiet Ostpolitik...
...skeptically belittled Brezhnev's promise to withdraw what she called "a few tanks and troops," Pravda promptly labeled her a "bellicose lady" and scoffed that "she tried on Winston Churchill's trousers but they don't fit." Bonn, meanwhile, was put on notice that its whole Ostpolitik of seeking peaceful relations with the East would be in jeopardy. Calling the missile issue "literally a touchstone," the Soviet news agency TASS warned that Bonn's inclination to go along with the NATO plan was in "clear conflict with the officially declared objectives of the German Federal Republic...
Underlying the rhetoric lay an important shift in Vatican policy that the new Pope has introduced. Popes John XXIII and Paul VI inaugurated Vatican Ostpolitik in contrast to the policies of Pius XII, the coldest of cold warriors, who even found Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the venerable Primate of Poland, too soft on Communism. Their theory was that concessions for the Polish church could best be won by high-level negotiations between the Vatican and Warsaw. Now, just as he had done when he was a Polish bishop himself, John Paul was announcing that the Polish church leaders ought...
Though Schmidt is reported to favor SALT II, consistent with former chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik, or "opening towards the East," he is also concerned over the Soviet arms build-up and favors a strong NATO...
...Casaroli has been the Vatican's top emissary to Communist regimes ever since Pope John XXIII launched negotiations to help East bloc churches survive. Though the appointment is regarded as John Paul's endorsement of this policy, Casaroli modestly shuns his common designation as the Architect of Ostpolitik. The Pope is the architect, he once said. "I am the instrument...