Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jerzy Popieluszko, the Solidarity supporter who was murdered last month. In addition, the Warsaw regime vetoed Genscher's request to lay a wreath at the grave of a German soldier killed in World War II and refused to grant a visa for the visit to the correspondent of Bonn's conservative daily Die Welt...
...appointment calendar, and this week the White House will roll out its best red carpet for West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The one-day working visit will be used by Kohl to fill Reagan in on the latest Franco-German efforts to promote West European political unity and on Bonn's views of East-West relations. But that does not fully explain the Chancellor's eagerness to become the first major West European leader to visit the President since his reelection. Another Kohl motive: to get a breather from the so-called Flick affair, a 33-month probe...
...Bonn, the Flick group is known also for dispensing large amounts of under-the-table money to members of West Germany's established political parties. In all, the company is said to have paid some $8.3 million during the 1970s, some of it allegedly in return for political favors. The disclosure of those alleged payments, which began after a tax-related seizure of company documents in 1981, is now reverberating through the West German political system, seriously undermining the effectiveness and perhaps the future of Kohl's coalition government...
...exchange for allowing the Flick firm generous tax writeoffs. Lambsdorff faces trial next January on criminal charges. In October, Rainer Barzel, president of the Bundestag and a senior member of Kohl's Christian Democratic Union, also stepped down. The weekly Der Spiegel published a Bonn prosecutor's report that the Flick company had paid more than $700,000 to a Frankfurt law firm, and that the firm had paid the same sum to Barzel. The prosecutor drew no connection between the two fees, but Der Spiegel concluded from the payments' timing that the Flick group had decided...
...Luxembourg, protesters swamped the U.S. and Japanese embassies with so many telephone calls that they blocked the lines. In cities as far apart as Bonn, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Christchurch, New Zealand, demonstrators paraded outside the two nations' embassies. In Copenhagen, the harbor statue of the Little Mermaid had a Japanese flag draped at her feet and was blindfolded with an American flag; she was also impaled by a symbolic harpoon. These protests were held around the world last week in the name of peace-peace for the threatened leviathan of the deep, the sperm whale...