Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young members of the Rebel Armed Forces, a revolutionary group, forced him out of his Mercedes 300 at gunpoint. The Guatemalan government rejected a rebel demand for the release of 22 Guatemalan political prisoners and $700,000 in exchange for the ambassador. The government refused to negotiate even after Bonn offered to pay the money. Five days after the kidnaping, Von Spreti was found dead, lying face down on the mud floor of an abandoned hut outside Guatemala City...
...Polish government regularly attacked the map as a provocation, but a Munich newspaper more accurately described it as "half masochism and half revanchism." But as West German Chancellor Willy Brandt embarked upon his Ostpolitik, which aims at better relations with Bonn's eastern neighbors, the map became an embarrassment...
...retired USIA Foreign Service officer who knew Ambassador and Mrs. James Conant well in Bonn, I question the reference [March 16] to that charming and effective lady as his erstwhile "financée." Does that term reflect your reviewer's appraisal of her worth as an individual . . . or to the Ambassador? Or did your pencil slip...
...back, replied that the two German states could never regard each other as foreign countries. While he did not rule out negotiations on recognition, he stressed that the proper mission of the two German states was to narrow, not to widen, the gap between them. He suggested that Bonn and East Berlin work out plans for improved communications, freer travel and cultural and athletic exchanges. Said Brandt: "Unless we make a start in these areas, contracts about normalization are going to be nothing but an empty nutshell...
...obstacles that divide Europe. Last week there were also limited signs of progress in West German negotiations in Warsaw and Moscow. In the second round of negotiations between the Poles and West Germans, the two sides reportedly exchanged drafts of parts of a proposed treaty that 1) would end Bonn's claim to former German territories east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, and 2) might offer emigration opportunities to people of German descent living in the area...