Word: bonne
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...West Germany, Reagan's comments came at a particularly bad time. Only a fortnight ago, 250,000 people marched on Bonn protesting nuclear weapons. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt favors the deployment of 108 U.S.-made Pershing II and 96 cruise missiles by 1983 in order to counterbalance Soviet SS-20s targeted at Europe. But he is strongly opposed on this issue by an important faction of his Social Democratic Party. Indeed, growing popular opposition to Schmidt's endorsement of the medium-range missiles threatens to push him into early retirement. Willi Piecyk, chairman of the S.P.D. Young Socialists, warned...
SEMINAR: "James Joyce on Stage"; Eamon Morrissey; Bonn Studio Theater; Monday...
THEATER: "Me and My Shadow"; Bonn Studio Theater; Tuesday and Wednesday...
...wrong with American foreign policy" and described as a "caricature" the notion of sending out B-52s to bomb the sands near the Libyan-Egyptian border. Another Western diplomat said flatly: "The means employed by this Administration are completely disproportionate to the intended effect. They nullify it." In Bonn, officials privately called the approach heavy handed, fearing that it would attract attention to U.S. interests in Egypt, fan further Islamic unrest and lend substance to Soviet charges that the Egyptian government is an American puppet. Right on cue, the Soviet press accused the Administration of "crude interference" in Egypt...
...peace rally in Bonn was strong evidence of how potent a political issue nuclear arms have become, especially in West Germany, where Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government has agreed to install 204 U.S. missiles-nearly twice as many as any other NATO member. Angered by the rising public protest, Schmidt called the demonstration "a declaration of war" against his government and his policies. Schmidt was particularly incensed by the action of 58 members of parliament belonging to his own Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) who signed a declaration of support for the rally. Galling too was the fact that...