Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since Charles de Gaulle stepped onto a red carpet at Bonn's Wahn Airport in 1962 had a French President made an official state visit to West Germany. But when Valéry Giscard d'Estaing alighted from his presidential Mystère jet last week, the 21-gun salute that greeted him merely punctuated the close Franco-German ties that have grown particularly strong since Giscard and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt came to power within eleven days of each other in 1974. Although it rained during most of the five-day visit, there were few visible...
...said West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week, summarizing a mission that had been fraught with perils. Washington had done little to hide its misgivings about the first visit by a Western leader to the Soviet capital since the invasion of Afghanistan six months ago. Like some of Bonn's allies, the U.S. was apprehensive that Schmidt might undermine Western solidarity by appearing as an appeaser, eager for detente for Europe at any price. Schmidt's political foes at home, mindful of national elections in October, had predicted that the Chancellor would return empty-handed and compromised...
...couple of years back, when the summiteers met in Bonn, Jimmy Carter smiled. Little else. Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt sat down the table from the U.S. President and swirled Coca-Cola around in his wine glass and looked with contempt along his tilted nose at Carter. Schmidt dominated the personalities, France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was clearly second, and Carter was down there some place with Britain's jolly James Callaghan, who did not survive Margaret Thatcher's political assault, who did not survive Margaret Thatcher's political assault...
...talks. The Europeans regard Carter as paralyzed on this issue for fear of alienating American Jewish voters. The allied leaders thus were in no mood to listen to criticism from him for their joint statement urging that the Palestine Liberation Organization be "associated" with any peace settlement. Said a Bonn aide on the eve of the summit: "If he starts finger wagging, we will blast back. We will tell him he had better get moving himself on the Middle East...
...periods of East-West tension, passages from its pages are quoted in the Western press like captured battlefield communiqués. Specialists in Bonn, London, Paris and Washington sift through its stilted, often impenetrable prose searching for subtle shifts in foreign policy. Photographs of the ruling elite are scrutinized for changes in status, and cartoons are scoured for arcane political references. "Pravda," says its editor, Victor Afanasyev, "is read on the lines and between the lines...