Word: bonne
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...signaled a new era in superpower diplomacy and heightened Talbott's interest in arms control. During the past three years, he has gathered information week by week, talking with officials at various levels in numerous agencies of the U.S. Government. He traveled to Moscow, Geneva, London and Bonn, interviewing North Atlantic Treaty Organization spokesmen as well as experts from the Soviet Union. The result is a vivid look at what really happened as the representatives of the superpowers wrestled to find agreement at Geneva. This week's story will be expanded by Talbott into his second arms-control...
...Soviet walkout in Geneva had been virtually guaranteed 13 hours earlier in the West German capital of Bonn, where two days of tumultuous parliamentary debate had ended with a resounding affirmation of NATO's missile policy. While West German police struggled with antinuclear demonstrators in the streets outside, members of parliament voted 286 to 226 to accept a first shipment of nine Pershing II nuclear ballistic missiles on their soil. Within 24 hours of the decision, U.S. C-5 Galaxy transports had deposited the weapons at the Ramstein Air Base near Mannheim. From there, the Pershings were moved...
...U.S.S.R., however, would be able to keep at least 120 SS-20s trained on Western Europe. The U.S. was not about to accept this feeler. Said a U.S. official: "It's still zero for us but not zero for them." Moscow leaked its version of the discussion in Bonn to muddy the upcoming Bundestag debate...
...Leonard Bonn Starker...
...with small boats was abandoned because not enough craft showed up. In West Berlin, only 10,000 attended a demonstration in front of the city hall. But that ceremony would have been more impressive if thousands of West Berliners had not decided to join the far larger demonstrations in Bonn...