Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unprecedented overture, Gomulka has held out the promise of better relations with West Germany in return for Bonn's acceptance of the present Oder-Neisse line as Germany's permanent eastern border. Ulbricht is understandably outraged, since he argues that his German state alone has the right to negotiate about German boundaries in the East. Ulbricht undoubtedly fears that the Poles may be willing to sell him out in order to seek trade and an easing of tensions with the larger, more prosperous half of Germany...
According to official Bonn estimates, there are 10,000 to 16,000 undetected war criminals at large in West Germany. Those who have not been caught by 1980 under the new extension will almost assuredly be dead of old age or too infirm to stand trial in any case...
...instructor; a master sergeant's pay about equals that of a cab driver. Moreover, a uniform provides no compensating psychic income to its wearer today. Determined not to repeat the mistakes of previous regimes that allowed the German army to become a state within the state, Bonn may have downgraded the postwar armed forces too far-the defense share of the federal budget has dropped from 28% in 1965 to 22.6% this year. Few soldiers wear their uniforms on furlough. Many German girls boast that they would never date a soldier in uniform. The uniform itself -gray and baggy...
Meanwhile, Chargé Fessenden, 53, a career diplomat, soldiers on in his efficient, unobtrusive way in Bonn. Says Fessenden of the ambassadorial void: "In the day-to-day business of the embassy, it doesn't cause any trouble. As charge, I can see anyone I want to. But for the psychology of the host country, an ambassador is important. He is the chief representative, and sooner or later you have to have a man with the prestige and the personal representation of the President...
Germany's surprising decision against raising the value of the mark virtually guarantees that the country's economic surge will continue, probably at a perilously fast pace. The output of German factories so far this year has leaped 17%. Last week Bonn announced that its foreign-trade surplus in April rose to $325 million, compared with $275 million in April 1968. A deluge of foreign orders 41% higher than a year ago is pushing Germany's industrial machine toward the limits of capacity. "We cannot go much further," says Werner Meyer, director of Blaupunkt, the Bosch radio...