Word: bonnes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After twelve hours in Bonn, Cohn proved that he was indeed a fast worker...
...BONN, Germany, April 6--Two investigators for Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's subcommittee declared today the group had uncovered "millions of dollars worth of waste and mismanagement" in the United States foreign information service...
...great advantage of the E.K.D. is that it enables German Protestants to speak with a single voice. The E.K.D., for instance, now has an official representative in Bonn, to keep an eye on legislation, e.g., the Protestants are as firm as German Catholics in defending religious instruction in German schools. Instead of forming a political party of their own, Protestants have been flocking to join Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democrats, originally a Catholic party, and its strength is now more than 30% Protestant. Two religious persecutions within 20 years have done much to heal old sores between the Protestant...
...vote (238 to 34, with 86 abstaining) was unique: for the first time in Bonn's history the opposition Social Democrats supported a major proposal by Adenauer's conservative Christian Democratic government (in fact, the Social Democrats did more to ensure the bill's passage than Adenauer's own coalition, which was responsible for most of the abstentions). Under the agreement, austerity-pinched Israel will receive $715 million in goods during the next 12 to 14 years; the remaining $107 million will go to Jewish refugee organizations. The first shipment of textiles, leather goods, optical equipment...
Things in the Middle East being what they are, amends to the Israelis had to be matched by overtures to the Arabs. Half an hour after the vote, the Bonn government announced resumption of economic talks with Egypt, and added that a team of German engineers had just arrived in Cairo to survey the possibility of building the world's largest power and irrigation dam on the Nile. Vital statistics: a dam. 42 miles long, to cost $286 million and to take 10 to 15 years to build, which would increase Egypt's arable land by 40%, help...