Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sudden sealing off of the East Berlin border, and the decision of TIME'S editors in New York to put East Germany's Ulbricht on the cover, descended in one-two fashion on TIME'S Bonn bureau. But if surprised, Correspondents Robert Ball and William Rademaekers were not unprepared. They have been living with the story a long time...
...scouted the length of the East-West Berlin border from Teltow Canal in the south to Tegeler Forst in the north, scrambling over rubble and through potato patches, often attracting the nervous attention of the armed border guards. At week's end, Washington Correspondent Loye Miller flew to Bonn and Berlin with Vice President Johnson to augment TIME'S own "presence" in Berlin...
...pace to discourage Britain. A "political" summit meeting of the heads of state of the Six, scheduled last spring, was called off because of all the intramural squabbling. But last week, partly under the unifying pressure of Khrushchev's threats against Berlin, the Six at last gathered in Bonn for a "European summit...
...protect the distinguished guests, the sleepy Bonn suburb of Bad Godesberg was turned into a virtual armed camp. Some 2,000 green-clad state police deployed around the white Redoute, a graceful 18th century mansion now a restaurant that the government occasionally takes over for major fetes. Italy's Premier Fanfani, The Netherlands' Premier de Quay, Belgium's Premier Lefevre, Luxembourg's Premier Werner came early. Last to arrive were De Gaulle and West Germany's Chancellor Adenauer; then the whole group got down to business: drafting a "European declaration" to serve as a guide...
...bland proposal to make Berlin a free city. Plausible as the idea might seem, it presents almost insuperable problems. The fact is that West Berlin, is a land, or a state, of West Germany, using West German currency, stamps and legal codes. West Berlin pays nominal taxes to the Bonn government and, in return, has received about $3 billion in West German grants since 1950-and almost a billion in U.S. development funds. Lacking any resources but its own labor and managerial skills, Berlin has become the leading manufacturing city in West Germany. Forcibly freed from its West German -ties...