Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...milestone of sorts. Into an austere caucus chamber in Bonn's Bundestag last week filed a delegation of Christian Democrats followed by a deputation from the opposition Social Democrat Party. With West Germany's political crisis entering its fourth week, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, the Christian Democrats' candidate for Chancellor, met with Socialist Leader Willy Brandt to discuss something that had never been tried before in the postwar period: a "grand coalition" between the red and the black...
...which parties would ultimately succeed in forming a new government. Some clues could be expected in how well the three parties fared in this week's Bavarian state elections. Whatever the final outcome, it seemed likely that West Germany's next government would rudely revise most of Bonn's most holy foreign policy tenets. For years, Bonn has stood unbendingly for no official contact with East Germany, no diplomatic relations with any country that recognized East Germany, no detente with the Soviet bloc, until after Germany achieved reunification. As a price for participating in any coalition...
Soldiers in labor unions? The very idea would be enough to set Clausewitz cackling in his grave. Yet last week unionization of the West German army was proceeding apace-with the approval of both Bonn and the Bundeswehr. At a meeting with West German labor leaders in Baden this month, Army Inspector General Josef Moll put his blessing on the union. "My presence," he declared, "proves to you that we generals recognize the constitutional right of soldiers to organize in labor unions...
Traveling in Europe last week, Commerce Secretary John T. Connor used a forum of German and U.S. businessmen in Bonn to explain why. The U.S., said Connor, "is coming to recognize the existence of a second avenue of approach to the European Communist World," is moving "slowly but deliberately" toward separating trade and politics. "We would rather discuss contracts than contrasts," the Commerce Secretary said. "We do not foresee dramatic results from this effort in the near future, particularly because of the ramifications of Viet Nam. But we have hopes of building some fairly strong bridges as time goes...
...Ludwig Erhard had been lionized as the No. 1 vote getter of West Germany's ruling Christian Democratic Union. On his prestige, scores of C.D.U. politicians had ridden to election victories. Many of them were seated before him last week in the caucus room of the Bundeshaus in Bonn. They knew that they had been summoned to watch as Erhard's enemies tightened the pressure on him to resign. But no one knew whether the Chancellor would turn with a roar on his tormentors or go along with those who had been gently urging him to quit...