Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...security late this month and hold a summit finale in September. They see a full-scale conference as an opportunity to make permanent all of those borders that were redrawn to the Soviets' advantage at the end of World War II. As Willy Brandt did when Brezhnev visited Bonn, President Nixon will insist that the success of the conference must hinge upon a free flow of ideas and people throughout Europe...
...result of his Bonn summit, he has a Mercedes 450, and his Kremlin garage also holds a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. He has a splendid dacha in Zavidova, 70 miles away from Moscow, equipped with swimming pool and sauna, high-speed boats for dashing along the Volga, and a vast duck and boar-hunting preserve...
...Already Bonn's cocktail-party circuit talks of little else but the scandal...
...Chancellor has welcomed the investigation, declaring his willingness to testify before the committee. Yet, even if it appears that he did not know about the bribes, the deepening mess will likely dim his image. More worrisome, the corruption and venality in Bonn that the investigation is revealing could, in the extreme, topple Brandt. His demise could rekindle the familiar fears about the stability of West Germany's relatively young democratic institutions that accompany the nation's major political crises...
...talks about his policy of reconciliation with the East-including his effort to win back Arab states that broke off relations with West Germany when it dispatched an ambassador to Israel in 1965. (So far six of the ten countries that severed ties have sent their ambassadors back to Bonn.) Brandt, in his turn, listened to a detailed explanation of Israel's stand in the Middle East...