Word: bonne
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...attempted papal assassination. "In the wake of the Lennon killing and the Reagan shooting, this attack looks like part of a chain reaction of violence," says Wynn. "One such highly publicized event seems to put the idea in yet another assassin's mind." Joining Wynn and Kalb was Bonn Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, a Vatican hand of long experience who served for three years as a TIME correspondent in Rome before moving to Bonn in March. Flamini, author of the recently published book Pope, Premier, President, has reported on the deaths of John XXIII, Paul VI and John Paul...
Even an economic official of Bonn's Social Democratic government, whose postal and transportation services plus a part of the banking and steel industries are nationalized, doubts the wisdom of Mitterrand's plans. "It's wrong to assume that the state can run a business any better than it could be run under the free enterprise system," he says. "Various lands have tried it-Belgium, Sweden and Great Britain, for example-and they haven't managed to make a good thing of it. France should be no different...
...into the European Community, whose officials now expect action on such prickly questions as agricultural subsidies, fisheries and steel to be delayed as the French concentrate on their domestic situation. Perhaps the election's most significant effect on the EC will be a weakening of the predominant Paris-Bonn axis, which depended on the close personal relationship of Giscard and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The Chancellor was said to be shattered by Giscard's fall. He sent a formal congratulatory telegram to fellow socialist Mitterrand, whom he barely knows, but personally telephoned condolences to his defeated conservative...
Hoping to avoid a diplomatically dangerous exchange of insults, the normally sharp-tongued Schmidt refused comment, suggesting only that Begin read the complete transcript of his remarks. An official Bonn spokesman, meanwhile, dismissed Begin's accusations as "misleading and insulting," and inexcusable even during an election campaign. Though Begin supporters denied the charges of electioneering, there was little doubt that his anti-German tirade was popular at home. Begin seemed downright pleased by the diplomatic havoc he had wrought. Said he: "I won't lose even a moment's sleep...
Arriving in Bonn a few days later, Haig had to tone down Weinberger's pessimistic assessment of the prospects for Soviet-American negotiations. Commented the Neue Ruhr Zeitung: "Haig repaired the china that was smashed a few days earlier by Secretary Weinberger." But Cap keeps smashing away. In Washington last week he told reporters that arms-control talks were contingent on the further reduction of Soviet troop levels near Poland. The State Department had to send messages to NATO capitals reassuring them of America's commitment to renewed negotiations. Haig publicly stated that Soviet-American talks are "under...