Word: bonnes
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When word leaked out a year ago that West Germany was supplying Israel with $80 million worth of "secondhand" Patton tanks, the response from the Arab world was torrential in its outrage. All but three of the 13 Arab countries (Morocco, Tunisia and Libya) broke diplomatic ties with Bonn, and Egypt's Nasser threatened the ultimate retaliatory blow: recognition of East Germany. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard hastily suspended the shipments and vowed never to panzer to Israel again. Last week the U.S. confirmed that it had picked up the tank deal with Israel where Bonn had left off. This time...
...inconsistency in providing weapons to both sides of the unstable Middle Eastern power equation. For more than a decade, sometimes by proxy, the U.S. has been engaged in an effort to maintain a "balance of weaponry" between Israel and the Arabs. Indeed, it was the U.S. that financed Bonn's embarrassing tank deal. The Soviet Union has pumped a cool $1 billion worth of arms and aircraft into the Arab world in an effort to unbalance the situation. Earlier this month, a flight of supersonic MIG-21D fighters roared into Cairo, giving Egypt a clear tactical edge over Israel...
Nobody hurried. Aboard his blue overnight train from Bonn, Ludwig Erhard snoozed for two hours on a siding along the Mosel so as not to get to Paris too soon. When he finally arrived at the Elysee Palace, Charles de Gaulle kept him waiting another 28 minutes...
...Bonn has wrapped its border barters in tight secrecy. One reason is fear of adverse public opinion. West Germans were initially revulsed by the deals, in which Ulbricht's cynicism reminded them of Adolf Eichmann's offer during World War II to swap Jews for trucks. There is also clear reluctance to upset the East Germans, who might end the arrangement if it proved embarrassing. So deep is this reluctance, in fact, that Western authorities have been cracking down hard on Westerners seeking to assist in the escapes of East Berliners. Last week three West Germans who helped...
Thus Zippel and Trochim joined a list of some 2,600 East German political prisoners who have been ransomed from Ulbricht's jails in the past two years (TIME, Oct. 16, 1964). The deals, arranged "privately" by West German lawyers but approved by Bonn's Minister of All-German Affairs Erich Mende, are financed by West German industrial firms (which then get a tax break), and the Bonn government. Total price to date: $24 million, or roughly $9,000 a head...