Word: ostpolitik
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When Chancellor Willy Brandt signs the treaty on Thursday establishing diplomatic relations between West Germany and Czechoslovakia, he will have made a significant step toward the conclusion of his Ostpolitik; the price for this, however, is the abandonment of one of his fundamental principles, the insistence that West Berlin be recognized officially as part of the German Federal Republic...
...Ostpolitik is the name for Brandt's master plan of negotiating treaties with all Warsaw Pact countries, for mutual renunciation of the use of force, and establishing normal diplomatic relations with them. Since his election as chancellor in 1969, he has successfully concluded treaties with the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany, although West and East Germany have yet to institute formal diplomatic relations. And at Brandt's suggestion, in the fall of 1971, the Allied powers signed an agreement guaranteeing the right of the West German government to represent the residents of West Berlin; the Soviet Union, of course...
...part of the German Federal Republic, and they refuse to grant permission for a West German embassy in Prague to represent these institutions. This was unacceptable to Brandt, and after the second postponement it appeared that the possibility of a treaty with Czechoslovakia was dead, and that the Ostpolitik would not be concluded...
...acceded to the Czechoslovakian proposal that the treaty be signed first. After diplomatic relations are instituted, Prague has said that it will be willing to enter into discussions on the question of Berlin. Thus Brandt will sign the treaty on Thursday and continue with the conclusion of Ostpolitik, the Berlin issue still unsettled...
...West Germany, the father of Ostpolitik, Chancellor Willy Brandt, expressed his "solidarity" with Sakharov and other dissidents "endangered because of their convictions." In ordinarily neutral Austria, Chancellor Bruno Kreisky called for a "democratic counterweight" to protect Russian libertarians like Sakharov. From Russia came a spirited defense of Sakharov by Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who has been the target of Soviet vituperation since he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970. Last week he nominated Sakharov for the Nobel Prize for peace...