Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just before the G-5 began its Washington session, West Germany's central bank again refused to lower interest rates. Even so, high-ranking financial sources in Bonn told TIME that their country indeed had plans to cut rates, perhaps in early October...
...past several months, a growing stream of asylum seekers from such Third World nations as Iran, India and Sri Lanka has passed through East Berlin en route to the Allied occupied zones in West Berlin. The traffic has discomfited the Bonn government, but the East Germans have profited from the refugee business. Last week, however, the Communists were persuaded to stop the flow: as of Oct. l, no one may enter East Germany without a visa to that country or some other destination...
...Bonn spokesmen said no money had changed hands in the deal. But they hinted that proposed East-West German agreements on environmental and scientific cooperation, which East Berlin seeks, would now be looked upon favorably...
Last year, after thousands of Sri Lankans entered West Germany through East Berlin, Bonn granted East Germany some $293 million in credits, and the flow subsided. Even as the Chancellor hopes to slow the influx of non-Germans, he wants to do nothing to discourage East Germans from seeking freedom in the West...
Many of the refugees apparently reached West Germany after flying from Sri Lanka to East Berlin and then crossing legally into West Berlin. They then fled West Germany because they were worried that authorities would reject their applications for asylum. Since 1949 Bonn has accepted any foreigner "persecuted on political grounds" in his native land. This lenient policy has led more than 37,000 Sri Lankans to pour into the country since 1980. The flood has provoked racial conflicts and calls for stricter immigration laws; new arrivals meet rising hostility. At the same time, rumors spreading through Tamil communities...