Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...packed press conference in Bonn, Hans-Jochen Vogel, 57, Kohl's Social Democrat opponent, vowed that "there will be no automatic deployment" of the controversial missiles if he wins the March 6 election. He said that if the U.S. and the Soviet Union did not make greater efforts to produce an agreement in Geneva, it would have a significant impact on his attitude toward deployment...
Helmut Kohl, 52, was suffused with optimism last week as he and senior election strategists huddled over breakfast in Bonn's chancellery. With only three weeks remaining until West Germany's March 6 national elections, the tall, affable leader was considering some heartening news. According to a poll published in the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, Kohl's Christian Democratic Party and its ally in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union, were leading the rival Social Democrats 49% to 42%. Those figures marked a 1.5% rise in the popularity of Chancellor Kohl's conservative grouping from the previous...
...French government did everything it could to ensure that Barbie was hustled out of Latin America without incident. The Elysée dispatched a presidential DC-8 jet to Cayenne to fly him back to France. West Germany had also sought Barbie's extradition, but the Bonn government decided to let the French have him. Cynics were quick to point out that the Mitterrand government's dogged effort to bring the Nazi to trial could only win votes for the Socialists in the French municipal elections set for next month...
...Soviet Union. West Germany's more than 48,000-member Communist Party has had an influence on the peace movement disproportionate to its size. During a meeting held in Bad Godesberg last April to plan a protest rally scheduled to coincide with President Reagan's visit to Bonn two months later, leaders of the Protestant and environmental groups that had been at the forefront of the peace movement were repeatedly shouted down by an audience packed with Communists and fellow-travelers...
...flurry of hints was enough to prompt cautious relief in Bonn, the first, and easily most crucial, stop on Bush's trip. "The West's policy was never all or nothing," noted West German Defense Minister Worner. "The allies should resist all divisive tactics." During his three-day stay in West Germany, Bush is to deliver a major address at a West Berlin dinner at which Mayor Richard von Weizsacker will be host, as well as meet with government and opposition leaders in Bonn. One problem the Vice President faces is avoiding the appearance of attempting to influence...