Word: bonne
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...first news of the death of Herberts Cukurs in Montevideo [March 19]. I would not like our sources, even anonymous ones, to think that we do not treat their tip-offs seriously. Our Montevideo man was on the job within minutes after the letter was received by our Bonn office. The trouble was that the letter gave a nonexistent address, and it was not until the following weekend that more precise information led to the murder chalet...
Predictably, Israel's decision also touched off demonstrations all over the Arab world. In Baghdad, 10,000 Iraqis stormed Bonn's embassy and set it afire, and 4,000 Yemenis gave the embassy in Ta'iz the same treatment. In Lebanon, there were riots in seven towns, one injuring 23 students and police. Only tough police action protected German embassies in Syria, Egypt and the Sudan from angry mobs...
Rocks in the Head? The Arab world's diplomatic response was more measured. One by one Arab envoys in Bonn packed their bags to come home, following an Arab foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo that had reached only limited agreement on a proposal to break diplomatic ties with West Germany. Ten Arab nations agreed to withdraw ambassadors from Bonn, but Morocco, Tunisia and Libya (which annually sells Bonn 35% of its oil output, or $245 million worth) refused to go even that far. Most of the foreign ministers were frankly appalled at Nasser's call for recognition...
Born. To Georg Adenauer, 33, Bonn notary public, youngest of former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's four sons, and Ulla-Britta Adenauer, 31, his Swedish wife: a son, their third, thus making der Alte a grandfather for the 24th time; in Bonn...
...Auden and Dylan Thomas in style and imagery, sprinkled liberally with French and German phrases, and overgarnished with italics in all the most hortatory places. The result is intended to serve as "a mosaic of insights, a constellation of enlightening moments" as the two brothers tour prewar Europe, from Bonn and its dueling societies to Paris and the Café des Espions...