Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germans blame the Starfighter crashes, in which 37 pilots have perished, on faulty maintenance and the fact that most of the pilots are inexperienced. To overcome the problems, the Bonn Defense Ministry is now farming out maintenance on the 1,450 m.p.h. planes to such skilled German firms as Messerschmitt, is sending pilots to the U.S. for training. Just in case, it has decided to install better ejection seats so that fewer lives will be lost in the falling Starfighters...
More immediately, a cutback in European troop levels would do much to ease the balance-of-payments problems that have plagued the U.S. Treasury and drained Bonn's Bundesbank for the past few years. Last week the U.S. routinely announced a reduction of its NATO force that will remove 35,000 men from West Germany, starting next January...
...Step Back." In the funeral procession, Johnson and De Gaulle walked side by side, with only the short German President between them. Yet they managed to ignore each other. On the two other times when they met during the Bonn ceremonies, it was obvious that they had drifted even farther apart since their last none too effusive meeting at John Kennedy's funeral. De Gaulle was correct, but hardly cordial. Johnson stuck by his own plan of how to handle le grand Charles. "You've seen boys playing," he had told his aides shortly before leaving for Europe...
...Kiesinger's protests, Johnson agreed to withdraw fewer of the fighter-bombers than he had intended to bring home, but he stuck by the U.S. plan to reduce ground forces in Germany by 20,000 men. He also promised that Washington from now on would consult with Bonn on matters of mutual importance before the decisions were made...
After more than two hours of talks, the two men parted, and Johnson boarded Air Force One to return to Washington. He left Bonn somewhat sobered by the new independence and shifting attitudes of Western Europe. Konrad Adenauer, with his love of getting down to the cold facts, would have been pleased that his funeral brought the President face to face with the changing realities of U.S.-European relations...