Word: bonne
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...government is so strongly committed to relaxing tensions with the East, it cannot leave the Moscow and Warsaw treaties in limbo for long. According to this view, Brandt may eventually be forced to accept the Soviet plan for Berlin: a "third German state" with economic ties to Bonn but with none of the political links that guarantee the city against absorption by East Germany. Other officials argue, however, that Moscow is moving slowly on Berlin largely because it is having trouble forcing East Germany's Walter Ulbricht into line...
Last week's 41-hour meeting between the Big Four ambassadors in Berlin produced little in the way of proof for either viewpoint. Ulbricht, for his part, declared in a speech in East Berlin that his government would be willing to talk directly with Bonn "on the basis of equality and the other principles of international law." But senior U.S. State Department officials described the speech as basically "quite tough...
...political kidnaping was set free in Montreal last week, the new brand of terror had spread to Europe. In San Sebastian, a prospering seaport in northern Spain's Basque country, a gang of youthful urban guerrillas was waiting when Eugen Beihl, a West German businessman who doubles as Bonn's consul in the city, returned home from work. Beihl, 59, never made it into his house. Two days later, his Mercedes was found abandoned on a cart track leading into the Pyrenees and the French border...
Very little in the first act would have induced any reasonable audience to stay past intermission. The male chorus in competent in the opening scene, but only exemplary insofar as it drowns out the orchestra. Sully Bonn as Ruth has exactly the right singing voice for the part, but, alas, her acting is lackluster, and the conductor has made her opening song into an almost endless and boring dirge. Ronald Remy, as Frederic, is also the perfect singer for the role, but he can't act to save his life...
Outdated Villain. Though other Western European countries recognized the Oder-Neisse Line as Poland's western border, West Germany remained a holdout. After Brandt took office 13 months ago, both Bonn and Warsaw agreed that the time had come to settle the border issue. Says the Chancellor, who has been invited to Warsaw for next month's official signing of the treaty: "We are not giving away anything that was not gambled away a long time...