Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Protesters planned the march to coincide with a major demonstration today in Bonn, West Germany, against the deployment in Europe of cruise and Pershing missiles, both of which were designed at Draper Laboratories, Brown added...
Washington and Bonn at odds...
...indecisive and unpredictable. The President rarely consults his allies, and when he makes a major foreign policy decision he ignores their sensibilities. That, during most of Jimmy Carter's tenure in the White House, was the plaintive refrain from Bonn. It was why West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, though personally uncomfortable with Ronald Reagan's conservatism, welcomed the change in U.S. leadership. Is Schmidt satisfied now? Well, not really. One of the reasons, paradoxically, is that Reagan is displaying some of the firmness that Carter lacked, but it is not the kind that Bonn expected. "Washington bashing...
...efforts have been hampered by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who fears that lack of Western European resolve may have an adverse effect on the U.S. public's willingness to accept increases in defense spending. Haig tried to persuade Reagan to delay a decision on the neutron weapon; if Bonn was not informed of the President's plans until 36 hours before the announcement, State Department officials explain, it was because Haig believed to the last that he could...
...border between life and death." The next year Brandt announced his intention to divorce his wife of 31 years. With his drinking under control, today Brandt's buoyant step and year-round tan symbolize the dramatic change in his lifestyle. He is happily ensconced in a penthouse near Bonn. His close companion is Brigitte Seebacher, a young party activist who insists that he exercise daily and maintain his diet, and who takes him to her own hairdresser. Brandt affectionately calls Seebacher "my watchdog...