Leonid Brezhnev may have failed in his efforts to gain election to higher office, but in East Berlin, a far less likely candidate succeeded grandly. By a unanimous 500-to-0 vote, the East German Volkskammer (People's Chamber) last week re-elected old Walter Ulbricht, 78, to a fourth four-year term as Chairman of the East German Council of State.
Ulbricht's re-election caught most outsiders by surprise. Last May, Ulbricht was suddenly and unceremoniously ousted from his far more powerful post as party leader in favor of Erich Honecker, whom the Russians refer to as...
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