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...officials used to grumble that Ostpolitik was a parochial policy that allowed the Soviets to cut separate deals with Bonn, drive a wedge into NATO and nudge the Federal Republic toward neutralism. When Brandt fell in 1974, more than one champagne bottle popped open in Washington...
Though a division into rival trading zones would pose a threat to future U.S. economic expansion, Bush implicitly seemed to accept Thatcher's analysis. He noted that the U.S. could no more dictate what West Germany does to help Moscow than Bonn, London or Paris could dictate Washington's policy in Latin America. "I don't feel that everybody has to march in lockstep," Bush said. "We're dealing with entirely different times...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower, Edward M. Gomez Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Rome: Cathy Booth Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...
...changed from a working society to a leisure society." The average person, it notes, devotes four hours a day to leisure activities, in contrast to about 1 1/2 hours 40 years ago. That comes as no surprise to anyone who has attempted to reach a government official in Bonn after 3 p.m. Much of the country, in fact, seems to operate on a distinctly non-Teutonic manana principle. Freizeit, or leisure time, is sacred, and work is, at best, a distraction...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower, Edward M. Gomez Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Rome: Cathy Booth Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...