Word: trusted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow last week, the two nations, which have faced each other for 25 years across the ramparts of the cold war, made a significant step toward accommodation. Reported TIME Correspondent Benjamin Cate from Bonn: "The treaty is, as Brandt says, a starting point for building a new era of trust and confidence across a divided Europe. It is also a starting point for a new kind of West Germany no longer utterly dependent upon the U.S. As an allied diplomat in Bonn put it, 'German history resumes this week...
Next morning, Brandt and Kosygin talked for two hours in a Kremlin conference room. Kosygin spoke of the Russians' strong desire for closer cooperation with Bonn on economic, scientific and other technological matters. He also referred specifically to Soviet fears of neo-Nazism. But Kosygin added: "We trust you, and if you explain the subject to us, we shall listen carefully." Brandt assured Kosygin that his country's social and economic conditions differed immeasurably from the Germany of the pre-Hitler period, and took up Kosygin's proposal that the two governments make immediate plans for economic...
Jarring's determination to remain "an impeccably behaved Western Union messenger," as an observer put it, disturbed some who participated in his unsuccessful round of indirect talks. When he saw that he had the trust of both sides, there is a chance that he might have broken the log jam by expressing his own opinion. But Jarring is convinced that the two sides must find ways of living together of their own accord, and can do so if kept in touch by a determined go-between. In that role Jarring performs heroically: while headquartered on Cyprus during...
...suggested in the Baruch Plan before the U.N. in 1946-would have been much easier to achieve, and the argument seems tenable. A humane precedent would have been set, and the U.S. would have established a standard of trustworthiness even among those who had no will to give it trust, just as later, with the Marshall Plan, it would earn a reputation for generosity even among the most cynical. The nation would be free of the guilt that has nagged at its conscience ever since...
Delicate Positions. Salomon Bros, began as a bond trading house in 1910 and later diversified into other activities. Last year it traded some $135 billion worth of bonds-an average of $530 million every working day. The bear market caused many pension funds and trust departments to dump bonds, but Salomon was able to find enough mutual funds, other banks and individuals to buy them...