Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their response to it. The sharpest policy split in Europe divides France and West Germany. The French insist on maintaining a fixed exchange rate against the dollar on commercial transactions, while the Germans contend that all nations, at least temporarily, should float their currencies against the dollar, as Bonn did last...
Even so, TIME's Bonn Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate was able last week to cable this assessment of the agreement's major points...
...last May, when the Soviets unexpectedly agreed to guarantee free access to West Berlin by rail and autobahn from West Germany, 110 miles away. Currently, the conferees are hung up on a few key details-precisely what the Soviets mean by "unimpeded" access to West Berlin, what political role Bonn will be permitted to play in the city, and whether the Soviets should be allowed to establish a consulate there...
...pace of the talks has been steadily accelerating since May. Until then the Soviets had insisted that access routes to West Berlin, 110 miles inside East Germany, be worked out by Bonn and the East German regime-which none of the Allies recognize diplomatically. But in May Moscow agreed for the first time since the end of World War II to guarantee free access to and from West Berlin...
...return for this concession, West Germany and the Western Allies agreed to limit the Bonn government's presence in the city by barring certain official visits and meetings of the Bundestag (West Germany's national assembly...