Word: bonne
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...nuclear missile issue were not worrisome enough for West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, he faced the possibility last week of losing one of his key ministers as the result of a long-simmering financial scandal. After two years of investigation, Bonn Public Prosecutor Franzbruno Eulencamp announced that his office planned to indict Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff on charges of bribery and corruption. Also accused were former Economics Minister Hans Friderichs, now chairman of West Germany's second-ranking Dresdner Bank, and three other officials. Eulencamp asked the Bundestag to lift the immunity Lambsdorff enjoys as a member...
...that Lambsdorff's resignation would encourage hard-line Conservative Franz Josef Strauss, the maverick leader of the Christian Democrats' Bavarian-based sister party, to make a play for the Economics Minister's portfolio. Kohl will resist such a move. But if Strauss were to succeed, Bonn's centrist policies could begin to slant to the right...
Eulencamp's announcement, though expected, struck Bonn with explosive force. At issue is Lambsdorff s political survival, and with it the ability of the Kohl government to retain public confidence. The investigators charged that from 1975 to 1981 Friderichs and Lambsdorff had accepted nearly $200,000 from West Germany's largest privately owned industrial concern, the Düsseldorf-based Friedrich Flick Industrieverwaltung, in exchange for granting the firm generous tax exemptions. Lambsdorff, 56, is a respected member of the Free Democratic Party, the minority partner in Kohl's Christian Democrat-dominated government, and an architect...
...there was an important positive consequence: the oft-fragmented Atlantic Alliance had, contrary to many predictions, responded to its most stringent test in more than 25 years by affirming rather than weakening its resolve. ?By George Russell. Reported by Roland Flamini and Gary Lee/ Bonn and Strobe Talbott/Geneva...
...same time, the Kremlin made clear that it intended to use the negotiations as a way of inducing the West Europeans to postpone acceptance of the new missiles, thus missing the deadline that NATO had set for itself. "Both sides," Brezhnev declared during a visit to Bonn in November 1981, "should, for as long as the negotiations last, refrain from stationing new medium-range systems in Europe and from modernizing already existing ones...