Saturday 3 March 2012

KENNETH RUSH; FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: New York Times

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. Kenneth Rush, who as a U.S. ambassador helped negotiate the groundbreaking four-power agreement in 1971 that ended the postwar crises over Berlin, died on Sunday at his home. He was 84.

A son said he had been under treatment for heart and blood ailments.

The Quadripartite Berlin Agreement, among the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and France, ended more than two decades of East-West tensions over the divided former capital of Germany. It improved ties between Washington and Moscow, reaffirmed the Western Allies' rights in the city, and paved the way for the development of peaceful relations …

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