Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proved particularly nettlesome. Three weeks ago, the P.F.L.P. hijacked a TWA jetliner with 113 aboard and forced it down in Damascus; two Jewish passengers are still being held by the Syrians. Last week several of the Front's teen-aged "cub commandos" tossed hand grenades into Israeli offices in Bonn, Brussels and The Hague, gravely wounding one employee of El Al Airlines...
...excel in joie de vivre, the Germans find their joy in Arbeitslust - the seemingly insatiable desire to work, no matter what. That partly explains why West Germany's 26 million workers hardly ever strike, and why Germany's economy and currency have gained such envied strength. In Bonn, the Federal Statistics Office has reported that only 36 strikes occurred in West Germany last year. The number of striking workers was 25,167, of whom 23,836 walked off the job for less than a week, many for just a few hours. As a result, only...
...French devaluation represents a considerable political victory for West Germany. A lower-priced franc reduces the pressures on the Bonn government to raise the 25? value of the robust Deutsche Mark. The mark is overvalued in comparison with the dollar and pound as well as with the franc, and that disparity has become a major source of international speculative troubles. But Germany has resisted any change on the ground that it would only touch off domestic inflation...
...back in the Soviets' court, while not endangering the 24-year-old Allied occupation rights in West Berlin, which lies 110 miles inside East German territory. Unfortunately, the new initiative seemed unlikely to meet with success, since the East Germans adamantly refuse to talk with their counterparts in Bonn about West Berlin, which the East Germans claim is their territory...
...visitor from West Germany. He was Walter Scheel, the leader of the third-place Free Democratic Party. As West Germany's new President, Gustav Heinemann, a Social Democrat, celebrated his 70th birthday, there were among the presents he received 50 red roses. The sender: the Soviet ambassador to Bonn, Semyon Tsarapkin...