Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exercise of power but seems bemused by its trappings. When security-conscious West German officials sent a limousine to take him to a secluded wood for his daily three-mile run one morning, he gently protested, to no avail, that he preferred jogging the streets near his hotel in Bonn. Later, he joked that the Germans had probably insisted he get out of town because his tattered jogging outfit was so indecorous. Unlike some of his predecessors at Defense, he has none of the arrogance or aloofness that so often offends Congress. Says one Capitol Hill aide...
Weinberger also raised eyebrows and hackles in Europe by portraying détente as an unmitigated failure for the West from the very beginning. In a speech in Bonn, he argued that the Soviets had taken advantage of détente to boost their own defenses, adding that "if the movement from cold war to detente is progress, then let me say we cannot afford much more progress." In Rome he denounced the "prison wall" that separates East and West Germany as the "great monument to Soviet imperialism," and noted that it had been "reinforced at great expense during...
...Bonn, the NATO Defense Ministers concluded a meeting of their Nuclear Planning Group with a joint expression of "great concern" over "increasingly menacing troop movements and other threatening events around Poland." The statement also warned that "the Soviets would gravely undermine the basis for effective arms control negotiations if they were to intervene in the internal affairs of Poland...
...Bonn, Weinberger produced graphic evidence to back up his claims. Shortly after the NATO meeting began, a colonel from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency presented a series of recent satellite photographs. Among other things, the pictures showed equipment being unloaded from Soviet transport planes at the two Soviet divisional headquarters in Western Poland; various troop concentrations during the maneuvers; tent bivouacs in the western Soviet military districts, indicating that infantry and armor units had left their barracks and taken up positions closer to the Polish border...
...Soviets the consequences could be disastrous. First of all, there would be the strong possibility of armed resistance from the Polish population and even from units of the conscript-based armed forces. "The Poles will not stand aside as the Czechs did in 1968," predicts a Bonn Kremlinologist. Though open resistance would eventually be subdued by Moscow's overwhelming might, the myth of Warsaw Pact unity would be forever destroyed, and underground rebellion might smolder on for years. Even short of that, the Soviets would have to assume responsibility for Poland's $27 billion foreign debt...