Word: bonne
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After a brutal kidnaping Bonn plans to get tough on terrorists...
...report by the Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Criminal Office) estimates that some 1,200 persons in West Germany could become active and dangerous at any time," and an additional 6,000 might give the terrorists "more than verbal support " No wonder that traditionally law-abiding West Germans are clamoring loudly for Bonn to take swift and decisive action against what appears to be a terrorist epidemic...
...coffeehouses of university towns, they are called Spontis-for spontaneous radicals who do not bother with ideology but simply want to destroy the present system, regardless of the consequences. "It's a bit frightening," observes a security officer from a Western country who serves as a liaison in Bonn. "When we kick down doors looking for these people at home, we find almost always tons of literature-wall-to-wall Marx and Marcuse. But here, they find nothing-no literature, just weapons...
...nihilism of the terrorists worries West Germans; so does the inability-so far-of the government to subdue them. In what Chancellery Spokesman Dr. Armin Grünewald called a "tragic coincidence," the Cabinet last week adopted measures to strengthen Bonn's hand against the terrorists. The Cabinet action had no direct connection with the Schleyer kidnaping, since it had been prompted by measures tabled five months ago by the Christian Democratic opposition. The two sets of proposals, which the Bundestag will consider this month, agreed on a number of key points: 1) the trial of terrorists would...
...Bonn could well afford a program of expansion, but most other European governments are strapped. Last week Denmark, faced with both 10.4% unemployment and a projected trade deficit this year of $1.7 billion, felt forced to impose a $1 billion tax increase. Sweden, expecting a $3.6 billion balance of payments deficit by year's end and struggling with an annual rate of inflation at about 16%, last week devalued the krona by 10%, and is considering other austerity measures. The country also pulled out of the European monetary "snake," the collection of currencies tied to the West German mark...