Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Political counselor of the U.S. Embassy at Bonn and in 1962 became Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. He was assigned as Ambassador to The Hague...
While West Germany will probably ratify the treaty, NPT poses a special problem for Bonn. Formerly, international pressures appeared sufficient to keep the Germans from building atomic bombs-indeed, in 1955 they renounced any such intention. Now, however, some German political leaders, notably Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, are having second thoughts. Strauss, with more than a little hyperbole, has denounced the treaty as a disaster for West Germany, or "a Versailles of cosmic proportions." The most serious German objection, shared by the Japanese, is that a highly industrialized nation needs nuclear know-how to keep abreast of its competitors...
...extraordinary scene. There, in Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's antique-filled office in Bonn, sat Soviet Ambassador Semyon ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin. Painstakingly, the Russian explained Moscow's grave concern over the first China border clash early this month to the head of a government long reviled by the Soviets as the chief villain and menace in Europe. Patiently, the German listened as Tsarapkin charged that the "chauvinist foreign policy of Peking" threatened the cause of peace and stability in the world...
Through Brussels, London, Bonn, Berlin, Rome and Paris, several themes recurred in Nixon's private dialogues at the top. There was his emphasis on the U.S. commitment to the defense of Europe through the NATO alliance, his pledge to consult the Europeans faithfully on questions of common concern, and his insistence that the West must reach a new understanding with the Soviet Union in many areas beyond the immediate topic of arms control. Despite these weighty issues of state, Nixon managed at each stop to depart from his minutely organized routine to plunge into crowds and press the flesh...
...days last week, it seemed as if the episode could be avoided entirely. Bearing an important message, Ambassador Tsarapkin helicoptered 170 miles from Bonn to Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's weekend home in Stuttgart. Over glasses of light Swabian wine, the two men chatted amiably as the Soviet diplomat explained a way out for both sides. If the West Germans would withdraw the Federal Assembly from West Berlin, the East Germans would allow West Berliners to pass through the Wall during the Easter holidays to visit relatives in East Berlin, the first such passage permitted in three years...