Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Werft's Kiel shipyards produce "special ships" (read: submarines) for Latin America, while the state-owned Fritz Werner corporation exports entire ready-to-roll munitions factories. Bonn's Leopard tank is highly regarded: Washington may test an advanced Leopard, along with prototypes by General Motors and Chrysler, in a competition to select the U.S. Army's main battle tank for the 1980s...
...chair in the Cabinet room as Ford strode in. He began scribbling notes for his boss on the new economic moves. There came a week when he raced to Andrews Air Force Base and clambered aboard a windowless jet for a round-the-world flight. From Tokyo to Bonn, a small group of officials dispatched by the President helped explain to allied governments Ford's ideas for reviving the economy. Over the Christmas holidays Porter followed Seidman to Vail, Colo., and was seated at dinner across from Gerald Ford, listening as the President talked of his hopes for America...
...Josef Strauss, 59, the ham-fisted Bavarian political boss who has once again made a phoenix-like return from the political grave. From his base as leader of the C.S.U., Strauss has emerged after several years of political eclipse to become one of the most important power brokers in Bonn...
...demonstrated in his Cabinet positions. Yet in person, Strauss is a witty intellectual who can readily toss off Latin and Greek epigrams-in an incongruously thick Bavarian accent. His fondness for German Sekt is well known, and before his 1957 marriage to a brewer's daughter, he frequented Bonn's winehouses and Munich's cafes...
...OPEC governments at a distance; it would not borrow directly from the oil producers, but would draw instead on the OPEC billions already deposited in the Western banking system. The money would come chiefly from the economically stronger countries, meaning, in practice, the U.S. and West Germany. Since Bonn usually finds it hard to stray very far from a Washington lead in matters of international politics and finance, the U.S. would probably end up holding most of the strings of the safety...