Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Often TIME'S staff members invite distinguished statesmen whom they have met as correspondents. Former Bonn Bureau Chief William Mader helped to bring in West Germany's then Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Onetime Paris Bureau Chief Henry Muller invited French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. As Senior Editor Muller puts it, "Hearing someone present a policy in person, regardless of what other information or analysis you have, helps you to understand that policy better...
...recent times, however, has their lobbying been carried to blatant extremes. On the eve of elections in West Germany last spring, they made it abundantly clear that Moscow was rooting for the Social Democratic Party, even going so far as to warn that if the Christian Democrats triumphed in Bonn, the result could be war. Such heavy-handed maneuvering was bound to have an adverse effect: scores of West German voters switched their allegiance to the Christian Democrats and the SDP, the ruling party, lost...
...West Germans knew something was amiss when Honecker avoided making any comments about East-West relations during a noticeably short visit to a West German exhibition at the Leipzig Trade Fair early last week. Said a Bonn official who watched the puzzling performance: "That was not the look of a man about to go West." A West German environmentalist who met with Honecker shortly after the decision to postpone the trip was made public said that the East German leader had complained about the "gross insults" he had received from Bonn. But Honecker also expressed his continuing determination to "limit...
Communist leaders appear to be gambling that U.S. journalists will provide a more favorable picture of the U.S.S.R. than the Reagan Administration has. Says NBC Special Segment Producer Ron Bonn: "They apparently believe that access to a large American audience is worth the risk of exposure." Soviet officials nixed few requests: an interview with Dissident Andrei Sakharov, a visit to Kiev, any views of airports or shots from great heights. To ease the U.S. reporters' way, the Soviets provided sophisticated English-speaking coordinators from the state television network...
...thriller on Soviet TV in which the villain is an American CIA agent; a portrait of the Muslims, who because of their high birth rate will soon outnumber ethnic Russians. "We've tried to give a different look at the Soviet Union without prostituting ourselves," says Bonn. "Our reports are different but honest...