Word: bonne
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ernment, in competition with 2,300 other reporters, photographers, broadcast technicians and producers, requires special abilities, and some agility as well. The TIME correspondents and photographers who reported on last week's economic summit in Bonn are veterans of several of these mammoth affairs. They came prepared to encounter, and counter, almost every sort of logistical or substantive emergency...
...moving 90-minute meeting with TIME Bonn Bureau Chief William McWhirter, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl replied to criticisms of the Bitburg visit with an emotional assessment of his country and its relations with the U.S. The Chancellor, in his only formal interview on the subject with the U.S. press, was firm and assertive as he explained why the ceremony must take place. Excerpts...
Before the Bitburg controversy broke, White House aides saw Ronald Reagan's trip to Europe as a pleasant presidential peregrination filled with photo opportunities. His ten-day itinerary includes both statecraft and diplomatic theater: a state visit to West Germany, the economic summit meeting in Bonn, a royal fete in Spain, a speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, high-level meetings in friendly Portugal. Reagan's theme will be "accentuate the positive," and in his remarks and speeches he will emphasize the 40 years of peace, amity and (relative) prosperity since...
...Quirinale palace and then pay a call on a residential drug-treatment center outside Rome. The next day she will have a private audience with the Pope to discuss drug abuse, followed by a tour of the * Pauline and Sistine chapels. She is scheduled to return to Bonn in time for the summit's windup dinner on Saturday night...
...pressed at the meeting for a new round of multilateral trade negotiations. The ministers agreed that those talks should start "as soon as possible." A firm date, probably in 1986, may be set when the leaders of Japan and the major Western industrial nations gather next month in Bonn for their annual economic summit. The West Europeans, led by the French, also wanted discussions of monetary reforms that would help reduce instability in foreign exchange markets. In response, Treasury Secretary James Baker said the U.S. would be willing to act as host to a monetary conference on technical reforms that...