Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ultimatum for Bonn as kidnapers and skyjackers ally
...these demands were not met, read the statement received by Bonn, "Hanns-Martin Schleyer will be shot. There will be no more extensions." In the ultimatum to the Paris daily, the terrorists warned West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt: "Any attempt on your part to delay or deceive us will mean immediate execution of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and all the passengers and crew of the plane...
...skyjacked jetliner reached Dubai on Friday after hopscotching from Rome to Cyprus and to Bahrain-picking up fuel along the way. Bonn implored Italian authorities to find some excuse to delay the airliner at Rome; the Italians, concerned for the passengers' safety, did not comply. At Dubai, the Defense Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Muhammad bin Rashid al-Maktum, tried unsuccessfully to negotiate the release of women and children aboard. Among them were eleven West German beauty queens who had won free vacations in Majorca...
...Spain) were welcomed by labor-hungry industries. Major reason: they willingly accepted menial jobs disdained by most West Germans. But since unemployment began to rise in late 1973, the foreigners have found themselves treated as excess baggage, even though most continue to hold jobs and gratefully work long hours. Bonn has barred German firms from hiring new Gastarbeiter from countries outside the European Community. (Common Market rules guarantee citizens of its member states freedom of movement within the Community.) The government has also imposed tough new conditions on the renewal of residence and work permits. As a result, the number...
Most of those remaining live crowded in urban slums. Nowhere is their plight more dismal than in West Berlin-a painful embarrassment for a city that proudly boasts of being the "window on the free West." After a tour of the foreign workers' quarters there, TIME Bonn Bureau Chief William Mader cabled this report...