Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come to the resumption of talks between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after the summer recess, it will be all the more useful to think along the lines of the agreement worked out on that walk in the woods." Five days later, Kohl further fueled speculation that Bonn was shifting its position when he said bluntly that the walk-in-the-woods idea "must be examined further in Geneva...
...truth deserves." The Foreign Minister explained that the walk-in-the-woods plan showed that it was possible to come up with an agreement that did not include the independent British and French nuclear forces, a major stumbling block in Geneva. Still, there may have been other motives in Bonn's renewed interest in the proposal...
...Soviet Union used to be able to count on the single-minded eagerness of West Germany's Social Democratic leaders to pursue a policy of détente with their Communist neighbors to the east. No longer. The Soviets got a close look last week at Bonn's first Christian Democratic Chancellor after 13 years of Social Democratic rule, and they did not entirely like what they saw. Helmut Kohl's 48-hour visit to Moscow turned out to be a bruising diplomatic skirmish that started badly and ended, as Kohl fully expected, in a standoff. Under...
...Brezhnev, the Soviets clearly had a stake in demonstrating that the capacity of the nation's leadership was not again in question because of the failing health of their supreme leader. The West Germans, for their part, chose to believe that no rebuff was intended. Still, as one Bonn official remarked, "In Moscow, you never can be sure...
After the Chancellor's return to Bonn, a government spokesman announced that Andropov had admitted to a "margin of flexibility" in Moscow's negotiating position. The Soviet leader had also suggested that negotiators extend the current session of the Geneva talks beyond this week's closing date and reconvene ahead of schedule next fall...