Until recently East-West confrontations in this divided city have impeded Berlin's revival as a scientific mecca.
He said he had no desire "to see this turn into an East-West confrontation" and declined to say which United States-Soviet agreements would take effect and which would not.
That's part of the plan, but the trouble with satellites is that you can't count on them to last longer than forty-eight hours into a major East-West confrontation.
The justification for such an unbalanced, inadequate approach, an interference in the affairs of a friendly country, was then seen in an acute East-West confrontation.
"But we in the West have no interest in seeing the question of the gulf being turned into an East-West confrontation."
It involved defusing an East-West military confrontation in Thailand.
This quiet archipelago of coconut palms, sandy beaches and tropical jungles makes an incongruous front in an East-West confrontation.
For 28 years, the Berlin wall has been the foremost symbol of cold war and East-West confrontation.
The author says that despite the efforts of some historians to turn Roosevelt into "a belated but convinced cold warrior," he, unlike Churchill, took a conciliatory approach to avoid an East-West confrontation.
China had allied herself firmly with the Afrab powers; a major East-West confrontation at that time was averted only by an unexpected attitude of moderation from Moscow.