Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return for better relations between the two German states in the areas of unrestricted travel and improved postal, telephone and cable communications, Brandt would be willing to grant, within the next 18 months, de jure recognition to the German Democratic Republic in all international affairs. Even so, he insists that in relations between the two German states, Bonn would never consider East Germany a foreign country and that East Germans always would share a common citizenship with West Germans...
What can Brandt expect in return? In the short term, perhaps, very little. In the long term, however, the West Germans might be able to share in exploiting Siberia's natural wealth. Politically, Brandt at best can hope for an improved political climate and toning down of Communist propaganda against West Germany...
...forces in Europe will remain at their present level of 310,000 until mid-1971. After that date, large cuts may take place. To a limited degree, the NATO allies can take up some slack; last week's announcement that 4,500 previously withdrawn British troops would return to West Germany is an example. But, realistically, no one can take the place of the U.S. troops. They must be strong enough to contain a conventional Soviet attack at least for a few days, so that NATO does not face a choice of immediate nuclear war or immediate surrender...
...Democrats won five seats, giving them the balance of power. Since neither the Socialists nor the conservatives want to coalesce with the Free Democrats, however, a new grand coalition is all but assured. Last week President Franz Jonas called on Kreisky to form a government, and negotiations for a return to a red-black partnership began in earnest in Vienna...
Though the renewed coalition will force an almost equal division of Cabinet posts with the People's Party, Kreisky has forsworn any return to the old Proporz (proportional) system of previous coalitions. Under that system, every Minister had to accept a watchdog state secretary from the other party, and government jobs all the way down to janitor were divided along party lines...