Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serious as its original decision to cold-shoulder the Common Market; inevitably, MLF will itself mark an important step toward military and political integration of Europe. Moreover, reasons Home, if West Germany is the principal U.S. partner in the undertaking, Washington may well develop a "special relationship" with Bonn that would leave Britain in even greater isolation...
Reissmeier's invasion of the Iranian embassy last week was the latest incident in a private cold war between the citizens of Bonn and the West German capital's deadbeat diplomats. Reissmeier claimed the Iranians owed him $50 for his work in the embassy gardens. The Iranians took refuge in diplomatic immunity, and since Gardener Reissmeier could not collect legally, he took revenge in shattered glass...
Grocer's Gripe. Every capital in the world has its gripes about highhanded diplomats who use their immunity to avoid legal reckoning. In Bonn the problem is heightened by the fact that some 95 embassies, legations and missions are crammed into one of Europe's smallest, most provincial capitals. High-living diplomats do not ease the tensions with their late, loud parties and cosmopolitan ways. But what really throws the shopkeepers of Bonn into a xenophobic rage is the unpaid debts run up by diplomats-particularly those from nations receiving German economic...
...exasperated grocer claims it took him a year to collect a $50 debt from the Congolese embassy, and a Bonn moving company has been trying for three years to collect the balance of a $1,100 bill from the Saudi Arabians. When a landlord in nearby Remagen could not coax the rent from his South Korean tenants, he went to the Foreign Office and asked that the debt be covered by development aid money earmarked for Korea. The request was refused, but Foreign Office officials began worrying that deadbeat diplomacy might arouse enough adverse public opinion to damage their...
...years since then have not diminished the spirit of Kompromisslosigkeit -no compromise-that guides both Die Zeit and its foreign editor. To Bonn and most West Germans, East Germany is anathema. But the Grafin has persistently advocated closer contacts with the other side of the Wall. "The Iron Curtain does not protect us from Eastern infiltration," read a recent editorial, "but cuts the Eastern countries off from the infiltration of freedom." The Grafin has visited East Germany twice; once, when a group of East German writers were refused permission by West German police to pay a return visit to Hamburg...