Word: bonne
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...their neighbors on the other side of the Iron Curtain to realize that there is indeed such a thing as Finlandization, but it is happening in the East, not the West. Moreover, it is happening with the approval of Moscow, which is encouraging its comrades to turn toward Paris, Bonn, London and Rome not just for economic help but also for political institutions and values...
...situated -- and where many of the missiles would explode in wartime -- has virtually demanded that the U.S. begin "early" negotiations. The Germans have enough support to force a serious split within NATO if the U.S. continues to say no. Britain, the Netherlands and Turkey support the U.S., while Bonn has the backing of Italy, Greece and most of the other continental European countries; others, including Norway and Canada, are trying to broker a compromise. But Bush is unmoved. He reaffirmed his position in talks with Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland last week, and again last Friday in a telephone...
...Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn last week proposed a U.S. commitment to negotiate in return for three conditions: the West Germans would agree not to reduce all the way to zero; no actual reductions would be made until the outcome of talks on conventional arms becomes clear; and Bonn would accept modernization of whatever Lance force remains...
...Nonetheless, there is a growing belief that some kind of compromise will be found in time to permit a show of unity at a NATO summit meeting in Brussels May 29-30. The "early" negotiations the West Germans want could be put off until next year or even later; Bonn might also agree to some of Nunn's conditions, notably that any reductions negotiated would not take effect until separate talks under way in Vienna yield an agreement eliminating or at least lessening the Warsaw Pact's superior numbers in conventional troops and weapons. The West Germans have begun talking...
Every minute counts these days for Shevardnadze, 61, who combines the duties of Foreign Minister with full voting membership on the Communist Party's ruling Politburo. This week Shevardnadze confers with U.S. Secretary of State James Baker in Moscow, then flies to Bonn to meet with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Early next week he heads to Beijing for the long-awaited summit between Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. The swift pace of change during Shevardnadze's almost four-year tenure at Smolensky Square has left foreign diplomats, to say nothing of his weary staff in Moscow, a bit breathless...