Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PROLIFERATION. Washington is deeply disturbed by the Bonn-Brasilia agreement. Over the next 15 years, Brazil will pay from $4 billion to $8 billion for a "full cycle" nuclear complex, giving it all the facilities needed to assemble an atomic power industry completely independent of foreign supplies. The package includes up to eight nuclear power reactors, a uranium enrichment plant, a fuel-rod fabrication plant and a fuel-reprocessing facility...
...unsuccessfully tried to block, and then delay the Bonn-Brasilia deal. Washington argued that because a full cycle complex had never been sold to any nonnuclear nation, West Germany would be setting a dangerous precedent that could only increase the chance of nuclear proliferation. So far, only the U.S., the Soviet Union, China, France and Britain possess the costly, complicated plants to produce enriched uranium. All other nations must come to these powers for nuclear fuel for reactors. Washington pointed out that U.S. firms are strictly prohibited from selling enrichment plants abroad; Brazil, in fact, would like to have bought...
...counter Washington's arguments, Bonn contended that if it did not provide Brazil with all elements of the full cycle, then another country, meaning France, probably would. Bonn also emphasized that it had obtained Brazil's promise that the German-supplied facilities will be used solely for peaceful purposes and will be open to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Vienna-based organization that polices the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...
...wake of the recent European tour, however, most European leaders feel confident that Ford, as a British diplomat put it, "is growing into his job." Schmidt indicated that he was delighted with Ford's display of real leadership. Remarked a senior Bonn official: "We now think Ford knows where he is going, even if he isn't quite sure...
...adopted by the Japanese school system. But as recently as World War II, the country had only one major orchestra, the then state-sponsored NHK Symphony, and only one basic source of non-Asian music, Germany. Today Tokyo alone has seven full-time orchestras, and Ludwig van Beethoven of Bonn remains Japan's favorite composer. Roughly 15% of all symphonic music played in Japan was written by him. Last December, in the season when the Japanese traditionally try to find year-end spiritual solace, there were 75 performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...