Word: bonne
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...hosts were miffed too. In Rome, Spadolini was kept by U.S. security men from going through the tight cordon outside the Palazzo Chigi until Italian police could finally inform them that the gentleman they were holding up from a meeting with Reagan was the Prime Minister of Italy. In Bonn, U.S. security men annoyed the Germans by insisting on inspecting the carbines of an honor guard welcoming Reagan to make sure the guns were not loaded. The security obsession was not confined to Americans. Outside Bonn, West German security agents searched the cars of the U.S. Secret Service men guarding...
From London, Reagan flew on Wednesday to Bonn, where he faced one of his most difficult tasks. West German politics are rived by an exceptionally wide generation gap. Older Germans, who vividly remember war and foreign occupation, are mostly pro-NATO, though often worried about American commitment to the alliance. Youths under 30 are flocking in growing numbers to an antinuclear movement that tends to consider a missile-armed NATO a greater threat to peace than the Soviet forces across the East German border. Reagan in effect would be addressing two Germanys...
Leaders of the peace movement showed that they had been listening too when they convened an antinuclear rally the next day. At least 200,000 people from all parts of West Germany poured into the Beuel section of Bonn, across the Rhine from the windowless conference chamber where Reagan was attending a summit meeting of the NATO countries. A widely distributed leaflet for the rally was strongly anti-American and anti-NATO; one placard read HEIL, RONALD REAGAN. But the mood of the crowd was as much pacifist as anti-Reagan, and unexpectedly relaxed. Said retired Dutch General...
Reagan was nonetheless elated by the Republican success. From Bonn, he placed a phone call to G.O.P. Leader Robert Michel on Capitol Hill. "We pulled it off!" exulted Michel. "That's terrific," replied the President. Said Michel afterward: "At least we have really made a start." Indeed, simply by showing that it could agree in principle on a spending plan, Congress gave a jolt of confidence to the jittery U.S. economy. The Dow Jones industrial aver age shot up more than eleven points the day after the House budget passed. The long-term reaction of business leaders and financial...
...concerns were amply shared by other NATO allies. "Ridiculous overreactions, and typical of a woman," said a senior West German official about Thatcher's determination to pursue the military offensive in the South Atlantic. At last week's NATO summit in Bonn, the alliance's newest member, Spain, opposed a joint declaration of support for Britain. Spanish Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo declared that "a military conflict is tearing the Western world apart and threatening to open up a profound rift of extremely serious political and historic consequences...