Word: bonneli
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...conversation in the grand, neoclassic Beethoven dining room of Bonn's 18th century Redoute palace hushed as the ailing, 74-year-old guest rose ponderously from his chair. While his host, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, unceremoniously popped a stick of chewing gum into his mouth, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev began to deliver his first public statement since President Ronald Reagan offered to cancel deployment of new U.S.-built nuclear missiles in Western Europe if the Soviets would dismantle the counterparts in their growing arsenal...
Brezhnev, who in previous weeks had artfully presented the Soviet Union as the superpower genuinely interested in peace, was expected by some to use the banquet at the Bonn summit to present a new idea to encourage the antinuclear weapon movement that has mobilized millions of Western Europeans in opposition to the deployment of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles. Holding the sheaf of white pages far from his body so that he could read the large-type Cyrillic characters without his eyeglasses, Brezhnev at first seemed to confirm his audience's suspicions by announcing in his heavy, measured...
...astute problem-solver and diplomat. Ask him to comment upon breaking news events abroad and he's likely to tell you he's too busy trying to bring peace to the world. Sometimes his initiatives have worked. Other times--like when he and an aide journeyed to Paris and Bonn in the midst of the Iranian hostage crisis and quietly tried to secure the release of the 52 captive Americans--his admirable efforts have fallen short. But at least he has tried--and often--to escape the academic ivory tower to apply his theories to the real world. That...
Last week, only two days before Brezhnev's arrival in Bonn, a West German company signed an agreement with the Soviet Union that cleared the way for the largest East-West trade contract ever concluded: the construction of a $10 billion pipeline to deliver Siberian natural gas to Western Europe. The U.S. had tried, but to no avail, to convince the West Germans that becoming dependent on the Soviets for fuel would make the country too vulnerable to political pressures...
...contrast to the largely Communist-led peace movements in France and Italy, West German pacifism is not closely identified with any political party. Says a Western diplomat in Bonn: "The majority of West German pacifists do not respond to political pressure. They are acting out of conviction. With them, it's religion...