Word: bonne
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...whole, world leaders are far from enthusiastic about the choice being offered Americans. Like many U.S. voters, they blame it on the primary system. Says a top-ranking of ficial in Bonn's Chancellery: "What seems to matter is who has the most money and the most physical endurance. Political talent and sophistication play a very small part. If they played a larger role, the contest would be between top quality people...
Back home after the war, von Wechmar worked as a translator and reporter, becoming Bonn bureau chief for United Press in 1954. Recruited into the diplomatic service, he was appointed chief government spokesman in 1972. As permanent representative to the U.N. since 1974, he has regularly demonstrated a Prussian passion for exactitude with an un-Teutonic irreverence and an irrepressible zest for diplomacy's social whirl. "A good man to carry this important honor for us," comments a West German foreign ministry official. "It's equally important that it won't go to his head...
...only major industrialized nation that taxes its citizens on salaries earned outside their own country. A Japanese or West German businessman living abroad pays taxes to the local government but not to Tokyo or Bonn. Congress initially imposed taxes on U.S. citizens living abroad in 1926. But employees with three consecutive years of overseas residence had enjoyed a $25,000 exemption, a measure that left most executive salaries untouched. In 1977, however, Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin gave his famous Golden Fleece of the Year award to the Treasury Department for its efforts to delay enactment of changes...
...Westerners who have met him have been struck by his shrewdness and tough-mindedness, as well as his utter lack of humor. To be a Pole, almost by definition, is to be fervently nationalistic and Roman Catholic, but Kania seems to have rechanneled his religious impulses. Explains a Bonn analyst: "It's not that he is anti-church or anti-Catholic, because no Pole is. Rather, he is a devout Communist...
Strauss and his fellow Bavarians have been pressing Bonn to build more of these camps to handle the immigrants as they arrive. The camps, built at federal expense, would reduce the financial strain on local governments. Last week the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) instead moved to slow the increasingly burdensome influx of foreigners by passing a tough new set of regulations on asylum applications. Asylum seekers will not be eligible for work permits during their first year in West Germany, nor will family-support payments be made unless asylum has been confirmed. Judicial procedures will be streamlined, so that...