Word: bonne
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Summitry, an established and popular form of contemporary international diplomacy, requires enormous efforts of preparation and organization by literally thousands of people. So too with TIME staff members. This week's preview of the dual Western alliance summits at Versailles and in Bonn, and the visits by President Reagan with America's closest allies, required substantial preparation by TIME bureaus-including previews of the summit written by five European statesmen and collected by Senior European Correspondent William Rademaekers...
There were, however, few signs of any regrets in other capitals. "The British pushed too hard and had it coming to them," said a West German official in Bonn. A French diplomat in Paris grumped, "Crisis? It would be fair to say that the European Community has been in a crisis ever since the British joined...
Western Europeans were less concerned with the substance of Reagan's proposal than with the fact that he had at last made one. The President is scheduled to travel to Paris, Rome, London, Bonn and West Berlin in three weeks, and he faces the prospect of large street demonstrations by members of the Continent's burgeoning peace movement. In Bonn, as many as 150,000 protesters are expected to mass on the banks of the Rhine across from the building where Reagan will be meeting with the leaders of other North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations. The tone...
...Bonn, a West German government spokesman declared his Cabinet's "dismay" at the toll of human life in the South Atlantic; Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was widely reported to have told the Cabinet that "there can be no blank check of solidarity with Britain." In Paris, the Socialist government of President François Mitterrand stated its "consternation" over the widening hostilities, and the French Council of Ministers called for a U.N.-negotiated settlement. The Italian government was more circumspect in its pronouncements, but popular pressure for a rethinking of all-out support for Britain was increasing; one reason...
...junior partners, the business-oriented Free Democrats, on how to finance an economic policy that would reduce West Germany's 8% unemployment rate, the highest in 30 years.To strengthen his position, Schmidt last week was preparing to reshuffle several key portfolios in his Cabinet.At the same time, Bonn's relations with Washington have been strained as the result of what the Reagan Administration sees as an insufficiently firm attitude toward Moscow. One oft cited example is Bonn's lack of support for economic sanctions against the Soviet Union in the wake of General Wojciech Jaruzelski...