Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first speech as the new party leader, Honecker stressed the necessity of "completely shielding" East Germany from contacts with the West. He also called on Bonn to ratify the renunciation-of-force agreements with the Soviet Union and Poland without waiting for the successful conclusion of the current Big Four talks about improving the status of isolated West Berlin. Brandt refuses to submit the Moscow and Warsaw treaties to the Bundestag until the allied custodians of Berlin-Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the U.S. -guarantee the untrammeled passage of people and goods between West Berlin and West Germany...
...Punctuality," said Louis XVIII, "is the politeness of kings." Kennedys are not kings-as no one in Bonn last week needed reminding. On tour with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Teddy Kennedy and his wife Joan (who narrates Peter and the Wolf), seemed to be late everywhere they went. Joan kept Mayor Peter Kramer and the fire department band cooling their heels for 45 minutes at the City Hall. Joan was at least an hour late for U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Rush's cocktail party. Joan was two hours late for the party given by West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel...
West Berlin could not maintain a decent standard of living without Bonn's assistance, which includes a direct annual subsidy of $500 million. As an other means of economic support, the West German government maintains 85 offices in the city, which employ 20,000 workers. Bundestag committees frequently meet there, as do caucuses of political parties. All that bothers the Soviets, who regard West Berlin as a separate political entity on East German soil. They do not object to West Berlin's cultural, economic and monetary ties to Bonn, but they insist that no West German political activity...
REPRESENTATION ABROAD. Presently, West Berliners carry West German passports and special West Berlin identity cards, but the city's trade contacts are handled by Bonn's embassies and consulates. The Soviet position reflects the view that West Berlin is "the third Germany." Consequently, Moscow insists that it should be allowed to establish a consulate general there, and implies that West Berlin should issue passports...
...signed last year with Warsaw and Moscow. Indeed, he may not even dare submit them to the Bundestag for approval. Should that happen, Brandt's hopeful initiatives for peaceful relations with his Communist neighbors would only have made matters worse. The Soviets have made it clear that Bonn's failure to accept the Brandt treaties would chill the political climate of Central Europe...