Word: bonnes
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Stable Symbol. There were difficulties in other countries as well. The Social Democratic Party of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt-long a robust symbol of stability-was trounced in one of its traditional strongholds: voters in Hesse, angered in part by Bonn's hedging its promise to raise pensions, swept Christian Democratic candidates into office in every major city, including Frankfurt. In The Netherlands, Premier Joop den Uyl's Cabinet collapsed last week after the moderate Christian Democratic members of his coalition refused to endorse sweeping land expropriation measures proposed by Den Uyl and his Socialist Party...
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt did not want Jimmy Carter as U.S. President; in fact, he rooted openly for Gerald Ford during the American election campaign. But Schmidt's discomfort with Carter and his new diplomatic style only explains in part the suddenly acid relations between Bonn and Washington. Last week German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Defense Minister Georg Leber flew to Washington for several days of hard discussion on three policy disputes that divide the two allies. They returned to West Germany in a somewhat better mood than they had arrived in Washington with, but without...
Beyond the financial benefits, the deal was important to Bonn because it offered a potentially steady supply of reactor fuels to West Germany. The U.S. protested that two of the installations -the fuel-fabrication plant and the reprocessing plant-could be used by Brazil to develop its own nuclear weapons potential. Brazil has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...
Over the past two years, the U.S. lodged several low-level protests. The West Germans never took them very seriously. Now, however, Carter has made the danger of nuclear proliferation a central pillar of his foreign policy. Bonn is outraged that Washington is publicly trying to undercut the agreement, and is vowing to proceed anyway...
Then a hitch developed: the U.S. Army leaked the "results" of tests on the two tanks, which implied that the Leopard was inferior to the XM-1. Infuriated, the Germans let it be known that if Washington reneged on the tank agreement, Bonn would refuse to go along with the U.S. plan to have NATO adopt AWACS, an American-made flying early-warning system, for which West Germany was to put up a quarter of the $2.6 billion cost...