Word: bonne
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Last week, the Bonn government tried to maintain that no talks about force reduction should start before progress has been made on Berlin. Bonn retreated from that position quickly, since NATO long ago suggested such talks without prior negotiation. But the West Germans had a point when they pleaded that other negotiations should not be allowed to undermine or sidetrack the Berlin bargaining. Chancellor Willy Brandt, showing up unexpectedly at a meeting of NATO Defense Ministers at Mittenwald, Bavaria, emphasized that "new initiatives should not be permitted to serve as an excuse for lessening the intensity with which the negotiations...
Peter Range, who shared the reporting duties with Kane, is a native Georgian. At age nine, he served as a page in the state house of representatives. He left the South-and the U.S.-in 1967, determined to become a foreign correspondent. He did, in TIME's Bonn bureau. Three years later he returned to more familiar territory as a staff correspondent based in Atlanta...
...would turn against France, leaving her angry and isolated. The development of the Common Market, especially along the lines of political unity, would be stunted. Without a countervailing force in the EEC, West Germany would dominate the Community. But a diminished Market would lack the larger European framework that Bonn needs to anchor its policies toward its Communist neighbors. Italy, with the West's largest Communist Party, would feel vulnerable...
...next day Schumann went to Paris for the weekly Cabinet meeting. When he returned that evening, France's position had measurably mellowed. To a large degree, the Germans were responsible for that. Earlier in the week Bonn decided to cope with its nagging inflation by allowing the mark to float in relation to other currencies. In terms of national interest, the decision was perfectly defensible, for nothing upsets the West German voter so much as monetary instability. In the context of the Common Market, however, the decision was highhanded, for it upset the parity rates among the currencies...
...European revaluation. After France and other Common Market countries made clear their opposition to revaluation, Schiller's proposal to let the mark float ran into considerable opposition within his own government. At a four-hour meeting in Chancellor Willy Brandt's house in the Venusberg section of Bonn, Foreign Minister Walter Scheel argued that a floating mark would foul up the Common Market's system of farm price supports, which assumes set relationships between the currencies of the Market's six member nations. Bundesbank President Karl Klasen contended that Germany should instead clamp on tight exchange...