Word: bonne
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According to Der Spiegel, which broke the story, a Bonn prosecutor's findings have suggested that Barzel may have received the money through his Frankfurt law office. Barzel was allegedly paid off in exchange for giving up the leadership of the Christian Democratic Union in 1973 in favor of Flick's choice for the post, Kohl. Though Barzel denied any wrongdoing and no charges have been filed, he agreed to resign after a half-hour private chat with Kohl. The Chancellor himself is scheduled to appear before a parliamentary investigating committee next week to explain reported expenditures...
...bloc neighbors, particularly looked forward to the visit of a third East European leader. The obliging guest was Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, 66, who earlier this year defied Moscow by allowing his country to participate in the Los Angeles Olympics. Said Ceauşescu before arriving in Bonn last week: "Precisely through strengthening of contacts, new opportunities can be found ... for overcoming the grave situation that exists in international life...
White is not the only TIME correspondent on television this month. On Oct. 24, William McWhirter, who was Caribbean bureau chief until his move to Bonn in July, will be the focus of a one-hour PBS documentary on the difficulties encountered by journalists who covered the U.S. invasion of Grenada one year ago. Says McWhirter: "The issue of the press's role was second only to that of the controversy surrounding the invasion itself...
...East German citizens who had been pouring into the embassy compound, at one point scaling the walls to gain asylum and the hope of eventual transfer to the West. At week's end about 100 refugees were huddled inside the former Czechoslovak palace, to the embarrassment of the Bonn government and the further complication of ties between the two Germanys...
Because East Germans may travel to Czechoslovakia without restrictions, the Prague embassy has been used as a haven by refugees before. Faced with this week's influx, the Bonn government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl finally decided to order the embassy doors closed. As tactful West German officials were aware, the new exodus came just as the East German state was preparing to celebrate the 35th anniversary of its founding under Soviet supervision...