Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagans' stay at Windsor Castle, even as the bureau, including Frank Melville and Art White, continued with its eighth consecutive week of reporting on the Falklands war. At the same time, Correspondent Mary Cronin was chronicling Pope John Paul II's historic visit to Britain. From Bonn, which will handle the last leg of the presidential tour, Bureau Chief Roland Flamini was trying to anticipate the possible diplomatic repercussions of planned demonstrations by the large West German antinuclear movement. Correspondent Diane L. Coutu was already in West Berlin laying the reportorial groundwork for President Reagan's visit...
...Pope, as well as Italy's President and Prime Minister. In Britain the old celluloid trouper will canter with the Queen through Windsor Great Park before becoming the first U.S. President ever to address members of both houses of Parliament. Finally, after a NATO summit session in Bonn, there will be a pilgrimage to that oppressively ugly symbol of Communist tyranny, the Berlin Wall. The schedule is exhilarating and the pace exhausting: on one day of the trip, the President and Mrs. Reagan will have breakfast in Versailles, lunch at Rome's Quirinale Palace and dinner at Windsor...
...taking a leisurely trip," said Reagan last week. At Versailles, where leaders of seven major industrialized nations will hold their annual economic summit, he will have to fend off criticism that high U.S. interest rates are largely responsible for the recession afflicting Western economies. The NATO meeting in Bonn will give the President, in company with other allied leaders, a chance to display the vitality of Western resolve in the face of a Soviet challenge and to celebrate Spain's accession to the organization...
...importance of the tour far transcends whatever economic and security understandings may be reached in Versailles and Bonn. It offers Reagan the chance to conduct for the first time diplomacy on a grand scale, to exert the natural leadership of the American presidency within the Atlantic Alliance, and to continue his efforts to regain from the Soviets the propaganda initiative on disarmament. The ambitious goal: to show that there is still a fundamental unity among America, Western Europe and Japan that transcends the well-publicized strains within the alliance...
...with European newspapers and television stations as well as in his speeches to Britain's Parliament and West Germany's Bundestag. According to a ranking White House official, Reagan's address to Parliament will stress "the unity of the West and our common ground." In his Bonn speech, "the emphasis will be on peace through rational security measures and genuine arms reduction...