Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, the West German government has nursed a certain longing for closer ties with neighboring Eastern Europe, in part because Moscow's underdeveloped satellites would be a juicy market for Bonn's heavy industrial goods. But Communist Poland, for one, kept insisting on a major political surrender before any deal was signed: full diplomatic recognition of Wladyslaw Gomulka's Polish regime, and acceptance of Poland's Oder-Neisse western frontier, which includes a big chunk of pre-World War II Germany. With 14 million angry refugees from the East added to its population since...
...Merchant prepared to leave Paris this week for a series of briefings on the plan in Rome, Brussels, Bonn and London, another U.S. diplomat pointed out an even greater incentive to participate: "Those nations that contribute to this force will know more about the missile arts in a year than the French...
...crowded beer hall. Of those who were still lonely as Fasching ended last week, many would not wait for next year's festivities; they will turn instead to one of West Germany's 200 marriage agencies, such as the booming "Institute for Elegant Individual Marriage Initiation." Chirped Bonn Marriage Broker Alice Paech on Ash Wednesday: "Now it will start all over again...
Security First. Today's thriving trade is the outgrowth of a business that has had its greatest boom during the man-short years following World War II. The main reason for its growth, says an official in Bonn's family ministry, is that "there is a lack of real social life in West Germany today-we have become a little selfish and don't concern ourselves much with our fellow men." Known by the unromantic name of Ehlanbahnunsgewerbe -literally, the marriage-initiating business-it has inevitably attracted many brokers less interested in mating souls than coining Deutsche...
Last week Bonn's new Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel officially scrapped the Europa Panzer idea, declared that West Germany would produce a flashy new tank of its own. French defense officials had gotten word of the decision long before their Charles de Gaulle had signed his new pact with Bonn. But the canceled deal was bound to set minds on both sides of the Rhine wondering just how useful their treaty really...