Word: bonne
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...convinced of the Tightness of their cause." London Correspondent Mary Cronin, who attended a huge anti-nuclear demonstration in Hyde Park, compared "the solemnity, the pervasive anger and anxiety, the grim determination to stop what they see as disaster" with U.S. protests against the Viet Nam War. For Bonn Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, the controversy on nuclear defense in West Germany was both ubiquitous and cacophonous: "It swamps the pages of newspapers and washes in huge waves over television," says Flamini...
...that he was seriously committed to the "two-track" decision reached by NATO in 1979, which linked the stationing of new nuclear weapons in Europe to a renewed effort by the U.S. to negotiate realistic arms limits with the Soviets. The President helped dispel some of those doubts. In Bonn, where Brezhnev was scheduled to start a four-day visit on Sunday, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had just concluded talks with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. "Reagan has set forth a comprehensive concept for the stabilization of peace," said Schmidt. Added Thatcher: "It will receive a warm welcome not only...
...President to act, but claimed he had not gone far enough, and made it clear that they would continue their campaign. eagan displayed an actor's exquisite sense of timing as he finally decided to step out on the foreign policy stage. Last weekend Brezhnev was due in Bonn for a four-day visit with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who, of all the NATO leaders, has most directly staked his future on the missile issue. West Germany, on NATO'S front line, is crucial to the deployment of the new U.S. weapons...
...S.P.D. members of the Bundestag signed a declaration supporting an antimissile demonstration that drew 300,000 protesters to Bonn. Schmidt described the defection as a "declaration of war" against his policies; he has threatened to resign if his S.P.D. opponents succeed in garnering a majority of votes against his missile policy at a national party congress. The vote's outcome is critical, and not just for Schmidt's career: if the new missiles are not deployed in West Germany, it is unlikely they will ever be installed in any other Western European nation...
...long that they rarely leave traces. Western Europe's well-organized Communists, however, have given organizational and financial support to pacifists. In France and Italy, the main organizations are virtual subsidiaries of powerful Communist parties. In West Germany, the extraordinary discipline of the Oct. 10 protest in Bonn was in good measure due to the work of the parade's marshals, many of whom were members of the country's tiny Communist Party...