Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anything still secret in Bonn?" Konrad Adenauer once asked in exasperation. The answer then was nein - and it probably still is today. Both citizens and foreigners in West Germany are frequently accused of being spies. That jaunty journalist is charged behind his back with being in the pay of the KGB, the Soviet secret police. This hovering waiter is suspected of eavesdropping for the CIA. All government secretaries, of course, are thought to nip out at lunchtime with top-secret letters to be photographed by enemy agents...
...activities of Soviet Embassy Counselor Yuri Vorontsov, who had died in a February collision while at the wheel of his black Mercedes 220 in Cologne. Vorontsov, claimed Spiegel, was the KGB boss for West Germany, and it put the finger on Russia's popular press attaché in Bonn, Aleksandr Bogomolov, 46, as Vorontsov's successor. It also made much of his close friendship with the Krupp group's press chief, Count Georg-Volkmar Zedtwitz-Arnim...
...highly unlikely before a new French government is installed in June. Even then, the Germans will weigh carefully any boost in the price of marks before their own national elections in September. Revaluation would lower the income of German farmers under the complicated Common Market price-support system, and Bonn's party leaders are worried about losing the farm vote. Yet a change in parity is almost assured by the vivid contrast between the mighty West German economy and the inflationprone French economy-menaced by excessive wage demands while handicapped by obsolete plants and an unfortunately anemic capital market...
Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss said last week that Bonn might revalue if other strong currencies-the Swiss, Dutch, Italian and Belgian-would also rise slightly. As Strauss told TIME'S Ball: "We know perfectly well that the D-mark is undervalued against certain currencies, but this is not the case against certain others." Officials of most of the countries in question disagree...
...willingness to think about the unthinkable reflects a widespread restiveness on the part of many young West Germans over the division of the country. Since Bonn's old method of trying to isolate East Germany has not brought unification any nearer, many West Germans want to try some other way of pulling the two halves closer together...