Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the text is both offensive and frightening to many foreigners, West Germans have been asked by the Bonn government not to use the first stanza of the German national anthem. It begins with a rousing Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, and goes on to lay claim to vast tracts of land that either never were German or have been ceded to other countries after two lost wars.* Instead, Bonn has asked West Germans to sing the far less nationalistic third stanza, which calls simply for "unity, justice and freedom for the German Fatherland." Nowadays that request is being defiantly...
...total of 1.5 million ballots and won 49 seats in the various legislatures. If that trend holds until the 1969 elections, the National Democrats not only will replace the fading Free Democrats as Germany's third party but also will place 40 and perhaps more delegates in the Bonn Bundestag...
...West German government, which sent Bonn University Law Professor Gerhard Griinwald to observe the trial, is still angry over the "gross violation" of its sovereignty in the original arrests. On hearing the verdict, the Bundestag discussed the issue for two hours. Bonn made plain that it was still considering retaliatory action, ranging from a cutoff in the $25 million in aid that it plans to give South Korea next year to a break in diplomatic relations...
After three years of staggering losses that have earned it the dubious distinction of No. 1 money loser in West Germany, Salzgitter AG, the government-owned steel giant slumbering in the strip next to the East German border, is going to be shaken up. A plan approved by the Bonn Cabinet foresees mergers of its component parts with private industry and, if need be, the shutdown of unprofitable plants. In 1966, on sales of $800 million, Salzgitter suffered a net loss of $45 million...
...imports, and of giving aid and comfort to capitalists because Socialist Economics Minister Karl Schiller has pumped government spending into industry instead of giving bigger unemployment benefits to workers. The discontent has grown so great that it has threatened to undercut the positions of the Socialist leaders in Bonn and to paralyze the workings of the coalition...