Word: bonne
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...economist then disappeared and was not heard from again until East German television broadcast an interview with him from the East German mission in Bonn. On the air, Meissner claimed he had been drugged by West German policemen before making the earlier statements. Bonn promptly rejected Meissner's story as "fully absurd" and refused to allow the would-be redefector to leave the country. Stay tuned...
...warplanes in April. The Paris bombing, however, seemed sharply focused on a domestic issue. A communique addressed to the daily Le Monde suggested that a recent decision by the French government to grant police new powers to stop and interrogate suspects may have triggered the terrorists' action. In Bonn, Federal Prosecutor Kurt Rebmann urged West Germans who might be sympathetic to the noble-sounding aims of terrorist groups not to excuse their grisly crimes. The Red Army, he said, "consists merely of perfidious, ordinary murderers." U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz echoed that sentiment in a speech before the Washington...
...Hague, Britain found a willing ally in West Germany, another of South Africa's leading commercial partners. Bonn consistently opposes trade sanctions as counterproductive and, in any event, considers them pointless in this case without the cooperation of the U.S. and Japan. Several of the smaller powers, including the Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland, called in vain for the E.C. to take stronger action...
...British composer of Evita and Cats, "came out at a time when your national spirit was able to afford a great deal more than what we in Britain could. You had greater optimism." Fizzy pop culture, American style, seemed easygoing but a little wild too. Even these days, says Bonn's Christian Hoffmann, who has organized a club of Americaphiles, "here in Germany, Kultur is either folk songs sung around the campfire or Bach...
Allied officials leaked word that unless the measure was rescinded, their countries might retaliate by canceling planned high-level visits to East Germany. U.S. diplomats in Bonn denied reports that the responses under consideration could include, as a last resort, a break in relations. But, warned one U.S. diplomat, "talk of it might just sober up the East German government...