Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June 3 after a ten-hour stopover in Rome to pay courtesy calls on President Giovanni Leone, Premier Mariano Rumor and Pope Paul VI. Traveling with Ford will be Kissinger, who last week spent five days in Europe setting the stage for the presidential diplomacy. Kissinger visited Ankara, Bonn, West Berlin and Vienna, where he talked for eleven hours with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...tighten security, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt banned nonofficial visitors from government headquarters in Bonn last week and ordered that an armored car guard the chancellery building day and night. The concrete and steel Stuttgart courthouse is encircled by concentric chain link, barbed-wire and wooden fences. A steel net has been strung across the roof to keep off explosives and prevent helicopter rescue attempts. Hidden cameras monitor every inch of the floodlit complex, and more than 500 policemen share the guard duty. Roadblocks manned by submachine-gun-carrying police seal off the entrances to unauthorized visitors...
...voters turned the C.D.U.'s 27-to-23 majority into a 25-to-25 deadlock. At week's end it was still unclear which party would be able to form a state government, but as a result of the election, the Christian Democratic majority of one in Bonn's Bundesrat will probably be wiped...
Sense of Relief. Throughout Western Europe there was also a sense of relief. Officials in Bonn and London said they would redouble their efforts within the European Community to mount a multilateral aid program to assist the hard-pressed Portuguese economy. The moderates' victory was interpreted as vindication of Europe's "soft line" to Lisbon's leftward tilt. Said one British official: "I dread to think what would have been the results of the elections if [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger had been allowed to apply his special brand of Realpolitik-probably 50 Communist deputies." Kissinger refused...
Tense TV. It was evening when Swedish authorities received Bonn's decision and telephoned the news to the gang in the embassy. Disbelieving, the group first tried to call the Bonn government direct, then at 11 p.m. released three women hostages with a message for the Swedish government that ended: "Victory or death!" At 11:45, while Swedes watched the tense proceedings on their TV sets, two giant explosions rocked the embassy. As flames shot through the top-floor windows, five figures quietly climbed out of a window at the side of the building. When Swedish police shouted...