Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bonn, during one of the most high-strung sessions of the Bundestag since the 1950s, a young Social Democratic deputy stood before his vociferous parliamentary colleagues with tears streaming down his face. Why, he asked, was his party approving a $16.2 billion defense budget when millions of children around the world were starving to death every year? His emotive question was answered with shaken fists and shouted injunctions to sit down...
Perhaps the most startling scene of all occurred in Bonn, where some 200 members of the country's armed forces, the Bundeswehr, paraded through the streets to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the organization. Fully 6,000 police were on hand to protect the soldiers from civilian abuse. Similar public military displays are now being largely abandoned...
...authority begin to be openly challenged. His German Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) was ousted from city hall in West Berlin in May. An amorphous left-wing coalition, including important members of his own party, is impugning some of Schmidt's most firmly held policies. Chief among them: Bonn's commitment to the 1979 NATO decision to deploy U.S. missiles to strengthen Europe's military security while at the same time seeking arms limitation through negotiations with Moscow...
...collection of symptoms. Chief among them is a growing fear of a nuclear confrontation with the Soviets and a conviction among the disaffected (which Moscow skillfully exploits) that the country is merely a pawn in the bellicose designs of the Reagan Administration. Says one senior Western diplomat based in Bonn: "It comes as a surprise at first, but a generation of West Germans who remember neither the war nor the cold war are perfectly capable of accepting Soviet statements at face value...
...cautious approach to foreign policy during its first weeks in office?and with good reason. The new government faced the task of allaying fears in friendly capitals that abrupt change was in the offing. Shortly after Mitterrand's inauguration last month, Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson set off for Bonn for meetings with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. His mission: to reassure France's foremost political and economic partner that "close and friendly Franco-German relations would continue" despite the departure of Schmidt's personal friend, cher Valéry, from the Elysée. Cheysson next...