Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part, Bonn has been nettled by such touchy issues as the future of U.S. troop commitments in Western Europe, West Germany's attempts to formalize relations with Communist countries in the East, and the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which many West Germans view uneasily as a Soviet-American scheme to relegate the Bundeswehr to the status of a perpetually second-class army and leave the country open to nuclear "blackmail...
...Amused. The Bundeswehr's 456,000 men constitute the strongest and best-equipped NATO force on the Continent, are deployed in the first layer of defense along the Iron Curtain from Schleswig-Holstein to Bavaria. Bonn's plans called for an expansion of the Bundeswehr over the next few years, but Kiesinger's Cabinet, worried about the economic slowdown in West Germany, two weeks ago decided to cut military expansion plans by about 25%. When a jet passed low over the Palais Schaumburg, in which the Cabinet was meeting, Interior Minister Paul Lücke cracked: "Schroder...
...Consolation. De Gaulle's blackball of the British came while he was visiting the West German capital of Bonn for the semiannual talks on the Franco-West German pact signed in 1963. He was greeted by Chancellor Kurt Kiesineer, who was somewhat exasperated because his French ally had gone off on his own during the Middle East crisis and ignored him while consulting Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. De Gaulle explained that his policy was to assure that at least one Western nation (his own) would remain on friendly terms with the Arabs. He also told Kiesinger about his feeling...
...pottery, publishing), that also owns the London Financial Times. For a British publication, the Economist is heavily staffed: a total of 40 writers and editors in London. In the rest of the world, it is very lightly staffed. It has one man in Washington, one in Paris, one in Bonn, and one in Vienna who covers all of Eastern Europe. Elsewhere it relies on stringers, often heavily edited in London. All articles are unsigned; staffers refer to their brand of journalism as "consultative...
...They blame student attitudes on the scant attention paid to the nation's overcrowded educational facilities while the rest of the country has prospered, and on the stifling of political debate since Brandt's opposition Social Democrats joined the ruling Christian Democrats in the Grand Coalition in Bonn...