Word: bonne
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...some day. But the fact is that the Soviets and the West are at present so far apart that no agreement can be hoped for within the foreseeable future unless one side or the other drastically alters its stand. After last week's session ended, TIME'S Bonn Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate managed to obtain a picture of the Western and Soviet positions. The major issues...
...together, the U.S. check for Indochina is likely to continue at $2.5 billion a year at least, and perhaps much more. By comparison, the American forces in West Germany now cost $1.2 billion a year, though much of that is offset by $800 million in military purchases by Bonn from the U.S.; the price of American commitment in South Korea has been running well over $1 billion annually for military aid and maintenance of U.S. troops...
WEST EUROPE. Brezhnev reiterated the Soviet desire for a relaxation of tensions on the Continent-on Moscow's terms. He praised the cordial state of Franco-Soviet relations. But he warned that West Germany's failure so far to ratify the Bonn-Moscow renunciation-of-force treaty "would produce a fresh crisis of confidence over the Federal Republic's policies and would worsen the political climate in Europe...
...Poland demonstrated (see page 36). A new exchange of denunciations between Peking and Moscow last week indicated that the Sino-Soviet schism remains as gaping as ever. Furthermore, Brezhnev may be having second thoughts about the wisdom of seeking a détente with West Germany (except on conditions that Bonn cannot accept); possibly Moscow does not really want to give up West Germany as a convenient propaganda whipping boy. Significantly, the Soviets toned down their calls for a Conference on European Security that would approve present borders and set up a framework for cooperation between European nations, East and West...
...plans for an 18-day European trip beginning next September-the first time a reigning Emperor will have left the country in the 2,631-year history of Japan's imperial household. Empress Nagako will go along on the visit to Copenhagen. Brussels, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Geneva and Bonn; it will be her first venture out of Japan. "I shall do my best to obtain a harvest of international friendship," said Hirohito...