Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scrap Production. When Britain put up its Lightning jet against the Lockheed F-104G Starfighter in 1959, Bonn chose the U.S. plane in a $780 million deal. Incensed, the British began grumbling that the plane would quickly be outdated, now refer to the project as "organized scrap production." Just two months ago, they were jolted once more when Bonn chose America's Sergeant missile over Britain's Blue Water model. Out the window went $100 million and 2,000 jobs. "A lamentable mockery of the principle of interdependence in NATO," cried Tory M.P. Stephen Hastings, whose constituency includes...
...star salesman of the campaign, Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric is just back from Western Europe. He brought home a West German agreement to buy $1.2 billion in U.S. hardware over the next two years. Almost simultaneously, the British announced that they too had closed a deal with Bonn for the same period. Their take: $300 million, or just about one-fourth what the U.S. rang...
...British commander at once protested that he lacked authority to act, explained that the issue was one for the Foreign Office to decide. After three days of wrangling, the issue was passed on to representatives of the three Western ambassadors in Bonn. There the British gave way, only to have the French representative balk, declaring he could do nothing without permission from France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who was junketing around West Germany with Charles de Gaulle. An other day passed before French approval arrived. By the time the Russians received the tripartite note "suggesting" that...
...plane and Rhine river boat. De Gaulle made contact indefatigably for the next five days. Police officials, terrified at the ever present prospect of an S.A.O. attempt to assassinate France's President. blanched at his indifference to security precautions. In Bonn and Cologne, De Gaulle pressed against police lines, shaking hands and murmuring. "Guten Tag, guten Tag." In Hamburg he scorned a limousine that the city fathers had just had bulletproofed for $3,000, insisted on riding in an open car instead. Cops with walkie-talkies endlessly scanned the crowds. Doctors and nurses dogged the President's footsteps...
...Union. As a first, institutionalized step toward this third force. De Gaulle called for "organic cooperation" between the French and German armies-a thinly veiled bid for West German financial and technical assistance in France's program to develop an independent nuclear deterrent; it was swiftly downplayed by Bonn, which above all is anxious to avoid alienating...