Word: bonne
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White House Correspondents Laurence I. Barrett, attending his fifth summit, and Barrett Seaman, whose experience goes back to the 1978 meeting in Bonn, had to contend with what Seaman calls "the bane of all reporters covering presidential trips": pools, the often tedious arrangements in which publications rotate coverage where access is limited. "They are necessary, but they add enormously to already grueling schedules," Seaman says. "Oppressive security arrangements in Bonn also made coverage of the ceremonies quite difficult...
TIME Photographers Dirck Halstead, David Burnett, Dennis Brack, Arthur Grace, Diana Walker and Sahm Doherty were deployed in Bonn and at the sites President Reagan was to visit. They also had to meet precise scheduling, especially at week's end. Within hours, film had to be shot, processed and transmitted to the U.S. as TIME held its presses...
...TIME Bonn Bureau, which played host to the visiting colleagues, the economic summit turned out to be an interlude in reporting on the Bitburg controversy. Bureau Chief William McWhirter interviewed government officials about the contretemps, as Correspondent John Kohan reported on a commemoration by U.S. Jews at the Dachau concentration camp and the official observances at Bergen-Belsen. The bureau's planning, together with that of dozens of staff members in New York, enabled TIME to have one of its latest closings ever, and to bring readers, only hours later, the dramatic events of the summit and Bitburg...
...also featured a stop at the grave of Konrad Adenauer and a bitterly controversial ceremony of reconciliation at a military cemetery in Bitburg, climaxed a drama that could hardly have been more unexpected or perverse. What began as a ceremonial addendum to his duties at the economic summit in Bonn had escalated into the most passionate dispute of his presidency. A gesture of friendship had instead revived memories of the Holocaust and World War II, strained relations between the U.S. and West Germany, and provoked worldwide debate. As the tumult raged on all last week, Reagan and his West German...
...President had completed a simplified but still stirring set of themes: horror at the past, vigilance in the present, hope for the future. Rhetorically, at least, he had approached a highly charged problem with directness and skill. As Reagan and Kohl reboarded Air Force One to return to Bonn, the President's relieved staff applauded both leaders. Said Reagan: "It was a very moving day for all of us, a day of remembrance and hope...