Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deal in the Community from both economic and political strength. Characteristically, he has already dismissed the possibility. In a press conference last week, Brandt went out of his way to emphasize that good relations with even a weakened France were the cornerstone of West German foreign policy, and that Bonn would use its enhanced position in Europe only "in a modest...
...nothing, he might have added, will happen, at least for a while. The informal gathering of EEC foreign ministers, scheduled for next month in Bonn, where Callaghan was to spell out in detail Britain's aims, has now become meaningless because of France's uncertain political situation. At the same time, Pompidou's death scuttled plans for a late May or early June summit of EEC chiefs to consider the British proposals...
...latest uncertainty comes at a time when French foreign policies are under consistent attack abroad. The Bonn meeting with Brandt, which has now been postponed until late April or early May, was regarded as especially urgent in view of the Common Market's increasing disarray and the growing rift in the Atlantic Alliance. At home, Pompidou's government is beset by alarming inflation, aggravated by the oil crisis, and the threat of widespread labor unrest...
...eight-page brochure available at government employment offices, men and women are needed in more than 40 professions-from map makers and pharmacologists to computer programmers and historians. The eyebrow-raiser is the address to which prospective applicants should write: the headquarters of the Bundesnachrichtendienst, or Federal Intelligence Service, Bonn's equivalent of the CIA. What that agency wants to hire is spies...
...first detente and then the oil crisis have exposed the fallacy of that assumption. The Middle East is the strongest case in point. Europe is dependent on the Arabs for 80% of its oil; before the embargo, the U.S. imported only 11% from the Middle East. As a Bonn official puts it: "For the U.S., the Middle East is one conflict among others, all of which are equally far away from Washington. But for Europe, the Middle East conflict is on its doorstep and a direct threat to its security...