For months, the East Germans and Soviets had threatened a new Berlin cri sis if the West Germans persisted in their plan to convene the Federal Republic's electoral college in the western half of the divided former German cap ital. Last week, as 1,023 West German electors met in West Berlin's cavernous East Prussia Hall and by a narrow margin selected Socialist Gustav Heinemann to succeed retiring President Heinrich Lübke as West German head of state, the Communist response was relatively mild and constrained.
Settling for Less. As many people, including President Nixon,...
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