Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...posture of Jacqueline Kennedy. Even more significant was the orderly transition with which one democratic leader gave way to another in a moment of great stress. Acknowledged with profound respect, it created a sense of reassurance and clarity about the U.S.'s role in the free world. In Bonn, a political scientist said: "The mechanism of a great democracy turned on, smoothly, calmly, if somberly, adjusting to tragedy, overcoming it. The Cabinet and legislature continued to function. It was, as it had to be, business as usual. How many nations could guarantee the same if their heads of state...
...despair is the cold war's "lessening of tensions," which inadvertently bolsters the hated regime of Soviet Puppet Walter Ulbricht. East German citizens oppose the U.S. wheat sale to the Russians because the West did not try to extract political concessions from the Reds in exchange. Talk in Bonn about $100 million in trade credits to the Soviet Zone inspired an avalanche of protest letters from the captive population to friends in the West. "We would starve," said one correspondent, "if we could make the government fall...
...entertain grandly offer luxurious junkets to the U.S., bombard defense officials and parliamentarians with facts and figures to show that their products are indisputably the best. Lockheed likes to operate through people who have an "in." In Britain it hired Prince Philip's longtime buddy Michael Parker. In Bonn, its chief lobbyist is former U.S. Army Major General Richard Steinbach, who until June 1962 was chief of the U.S. military advisory group in Germany...
Though the German Defense Ministry had already decided to order 110 Transalls, Lockheed nevertheless set up a special sales command post in Bonn and prevailed on a majority of the members of the Bundestag defense committee to vote against granting Transall funds and to call for a flying competition between the Transall and the Hercules. Von Hassel exploded. He denounced Lockheed for "deliberately operating with false figures and data," prodded the Bundestag committee into reversing itself and approving the funds for the Transall and, for good measure, pointedly postponed a $70 million order for 33 Lockheed F-104 trainers. Still...
...Luftwaffe, Lockheed saw its program coming to an end in Germany, and was anxious to sell the Germans something else-its C-130 Hercules transport, one model of which the company had specially revamped to fit certain German requirements. All that Lockheed had to do was persuade Bonn to drop a planned Franco-German project to build the Transall turboprop transport. But the Germans could not drop Transall-for Transport Alliance-without affronting the French, who have already ordered 50 planes. Germany's renascent airframe industry, also, needs the work that the Transall would provide. And there...