Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...working toward compatible docking systems for their spacecraft, which could lead to eventual joint ventures beyond the earth. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, on his way home from a U.S. visit, became the first Soviet official of his rank ever to visit West Germany; while there, he conferred with Bonn's Foreign Minister Walter Scheel and hinted that a break-through might he near in the big-power talks on Berlin, which reconvene this week. But there has also been abundant evidence of a chill in other areas, such as Cuba and the Middle East. And then there...
...higher levels, the discrimination is far more noticeable. Though the Vatican employs many women as clerks and typists, it recently refused to accept one-Frau Elizabeth Müller-as a member of the diplomatic mission from Bonn. Rosemary Goldie, the Catholic daughter of an Australian Jew, is the first woman ever to hold a post in the Curia. She was appointed an Undersecretary of the Council on the Laity by Pope Paul...
...press for a quick agreement in principle with the Soviets on the city. The fine points, Brandt's aides said, could be negotiated later. One reason for haste is that the West Germans hope to sign a renunciation-of-force treaty with Poland next month, and Bonn and Warsaw do not want their negotiations to outpace West Germany's diplomatic progress with Moscow. If that happens, the Russians are likely to be come alarmed that their allies are cozying up too quickly to Bonn...
...five governments involved in the negotiating?the U.S., Britain, West Germany, Switzerland and Israel?also added to the confusion. The West Germans once again contemplated trading unilaterally for the release of two citizens by freeing three Arabs imprisoned by Bonn. British Foreign Minister Alec Douglas-Home, anxious to speed up deliberations, interrupted Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban's private visit to England to press for a promise to release more Arab prisoners. The Israelis agreed, among other things, to give up the two Algerian intelligence agents they had been holding. For its part, the U.S., which had dispatched Sixth Fleet...
...most of the Seventh Army's 60 bases from Bonn to the Bavarian Alps, young black soldiers toss the upraised-fist salute to their brothers and willingly accept courts-martial as the price of their nonregulation Afro haircuts...