Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Center for International Studies. In London and Paris are diplomats, research groups and members of assorted agencies of the James Bond category, who informally share with us their information and their conclusions. Our German bureau touched base with 15 assorted Kremlinologists (as they all hate to be called) in Bonn, Berlin and Munich. Most, if not all, of these sources insist on anonymity; they talk to us out of a fascination with the subject, a trust in our discretion, and an eagerness to share their knowledge in an area vital to us all. They tend to caution: few of them...
...stakes, of course, were far too high for so far-fetched a motive. Many Communists apparently do not believe the story themselves. "The Soviets here are depressed and quite sensitive," reports a U.S. newsman from Bonn. "When they tell you that Khrushchev withdrew because the U.S. guaranteed the continued existence of Castro, they look quickly at your eyes to see if you buy that one. They really prefer not to talk about...
...This would certainly fit in with the views of those in the West who continue to argue that if Russia was reasonable enough to give up its Cuban bases, the U.S. ought to give up some of its own bases. A first sign of the line came at a Bonn reception last week when Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov planted his tall, bearlike figure solidly before one of West Germany's top diplomats, Franz Krapf, head of the Foreign Office's Eastern section...
...might well have happened in Hitler's Germany. Armed with arrogance, pistols and arrest warrants, special security police swooped down at night on the Bonn bureau of Der Spiegel (The Mirror), a weekly newsmagazine, and summarily carted staffers off to jail. In Der Spiegel's Hamburg headquarters, other police sealed off rooms, ransacked them with a thoroughness that included upturning the wastebaskets. In Torremolinos, Spain, about 1,300 miles away, local police, acting on an urgent request from West German authorities, routed a vacationing Spiegel subeditor and his wife from bed and locked them both behind bars...
...trial, which may be months away. But from his cell, Augstein blithely sent out orders to boost Der Spiegel's press run from the usual 500,000 to 850,000. The magazine also filed a complaint in Federal Constitutional Court against the government's highhandedness. In Bonn, Defense Minister Strauss kept mute...