Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year's national elections. The appointment also meant that the Social Democrats, who under Wehner's influence have played down their differences with the Christian Democrats in the Grand Coalition, now intend to play them up in order to impress voters with what they are doing in Bonn. Explained Brandt: "In Germany, when the Social Democrats have a slight cold, it can turn into a serious pneumonia for democracy"-a reference to the fact that in the Weimar Republic, the decline of the Social Democrats coincided with the rise of the Nazis. By sidetracking Wehner, Brandt hoped...
...England placed the black flag of anarchy atop the London School of Economics. Warned the West German weekly Rheinischer Merkur: "France does not stand outside the political streams and conflicts of the Western world. The call for reform in Paris is just as loud as we hear it in Bonn, in Rome or in Madrid. Flash fires threat en every country...
...stormy protests. But they keep at it just the same, and last week was no exception. At Frankfurt University, 200 members of the Socialist German Students' League barricaded university entrances, surrounded buildings with a tough, red-helmeted picket line and battled anyone who tried to enter classrooms. At Bonn University, 1,000 students boycotted lectures. At more than a dozen other West German universities and colleges, thousands more staged teach-ins and protest marches...
...National Democrats; in Baden-Württemberg, the Socialists dropped from 37.3% of the vote in 1964 to 29% last week, which meant the loss of ten seats. Disappointed at the loss of their old image as a tough, independent-minded party, the Socialists in Bonn have become in creasingly restless of late in their alliance with the Christian Democrats. One result is that some important legislation, including a plan for voting reform that would weaken the National Democrats, has been unable to attract the firm support it needs to pass...
Alarmed by the violence, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger broke off his Easter vacation in southern Germany and went back to Bonn, where he warned the students to calm down or face the consequences. Meanwhile, in a display of the intertwining relationships between the young European radicals, students staged riots of varying degrees of violence in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam. At week's end, taking advantage of West Germany's troubles, the East German Communist regime issued an ominous warning that it was now barring all senior Bonn officials from traveling to and from West Berlin through its territory...