Word: bonne
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...Janus computer war typically starts with a column of Soviet tanks (red symbols on the video screen) lumbering into sight and rolling through pastureland toward the town of Bad Hersfeld, some 120 miles east of Bonn. The tanks skirt green-shaded woods and head for the blue line of the Fulda River. The Livermore programmers have lavished colorful detail on their simulation: as the action mounts land mines explode in flashes of white, and helicopter symbols appear over enemy outposts. Artillery fire slashes across the screen like a laser sword. The flight time the shells is preprogrammed to the millisecond...
...plans to contribute some of Alaska's estimated flock of 30,000 eagles to 21 other states that are trying to rebuild their populations. Additional help came from an unexpected quarter last month when West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt gave two baby bald eagles to President Reagan in Bonn. When they are old enough later this year, the eaglets, named Carol and Captain, will be flown to the U.S. After that, air travel will be strictly do-it-yourself...
...source of discouragement in contemplating these victories may lie in comparing the power of words with actions. The wars in the Falklands and Lebanon were not the only major events of recent weeks. During the time that both wars were going full tilt, the NATO alliance was meeting in Bonn to discuss disarmament. The Pope was urging peace, first in London, then in Buenos Aires. In New York City, some 700,000 people massed to offer a cry against nuclear war?the protesters a target of easy mockery for the coolly sophisticated, but 700,000 strong nonetheless...
...sought to balance his speech by declaring that for all their suspicion of the Soviets, "Americans yearn to let go" of their arms and are entering negotiations "bearing honest proposals." Still, the speech differed strikingly in tone from some of those that Reagan gave in Europe, notably one in Bonn during which he told antinuclear marchers that "my heart is with you." Nor was there any question who had decided on the switch. The President not only dictated the tone but personally wrote some of the more striking sections, including the "paper castle" passage, during a weekend at Camp David...
Only four days before he served as host to the NATO summit meeting in Bonn last week, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was undercut by a local election setback that reinforced doubts about the survival of his coalition government. After more than two decades of rule in the Chancellor's home town of Hamburg, his Social Democratic Party lost control of the city-state's legislature. Unwisely, perhaps, Schmidt had played a prominent role in the campaign. To underline the personal link between the Hamburg race and the head of the federal government, the local branch of the Social Democrats...