Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those extraordinary moments in history that seem to sum up an era. As a Soviet editor put it, "When Brezhnev steps down in Bonn, you can draw a line under World War II." Brezhnev made it clear that he believed the outlook to be sunny. During a brief earlier visit to East Berlin, he had said: "The political barometer in Europe today points more and more plainly to clear weather." At the airport, he added: "We can say that a good foundation has been created. Now it is important to build on this foundation a stable edifice of good neighborly...
...reluctant to do business with the Soviet Union-or with virtually anyone else, for that matter. Brandt, however, has more on his mind than expanding trade relations. He would like the Russians to agree that West Germany can automatically negotiate agreements on behalf of West Berlin, which Bonn insists is part of the Federal Republic and which the Soviets maintain is a separate political entity. Brandt also wants West Germany to represent West Berlin at the United Nations. On relations with East Germany, the Chancellor hopes that Brezhnev can spur some action on the agreements that were supposed to follow...
Although Brezhnev has requested that public ceremonies be kept to a minimum, the Soviet leader will receive an expansive (and expensive) welcome in Bonn. At a cost of $90.000, the West German government has reopened and refurbished the stately old Petersberg Hotel, where the Soviet leader and his retinue will be staying. Brezhnev will likely sleep in the same bed that Queen Elizabeth used in 1965. Seemingly more intent on work than recreation, Brezhnev declined West German offers of sightseeing side trips, including one to Trier, the birthplace of Karl Marx...
...last point, Brezhnev will soon have another chance to judge for himself. Within a few weeks after his visit to Bonn, the Soviet leader is scheduled to make his first journey to Washington. Some diplomats have questioned the certainty of the trip, arguing that it may depend on congressional passage of legislation granting the Soviet Union most-favored-nation trading status with the U.S.. an issue clouded by congressional hostility to Russia's treatment of Soviet Jews. Last week, however, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger returned from a four-day visit to Moscow and reported that more than...
Barzel's fall is closely connected with his wavering stance on Ostpolitik. Last year, when Bonn's treaties with Moscow and Warsaw came up for ratification in the Bundestag, he failed for months to make up his mind what party policy should be. Just before the Bundestag debate on the treaties, he decided that the C.D.U.-C.S.U. deputies should vote against ratification; then, after a bipartisan policy declaration had been worked out, he said he would allow a free vote. Under pressure from C.S.U. Leader Franz Josef Strauss, he changed his mind again and said that the opposition...