Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington, London and Bonn bureaus contributed files on the Soviet economy and politics. The principal reporting for the story came from Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, whose extensive note taking on Soviet life today began last September, when he joined the American and Russian astronauts who had participated in the Apollo-Soyuz space rendezvous on their seven-city post-mission tour of the Soviet Union...
...symmetry of Marilyn Monroe or even a Campbell's soup can, but no matter. Willy Brandt, 62, former Chancellor of West Germany and 1971 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, put on a smile and a pin-stripe suit to pose for Pop Artist Andy Warhol in a Bonn art gallery. Brandt stood patiently for half an hour as Warhol clicked off more than two dozen Polaroid pictures, to be used later to manufacture the politician's portrait. Though Andy will collect a commission for the finished work, which will be auctioned off for the benefit of UNICEF...
...tanks having five gears, one forward and four reverse. When Die Welt printed the Chancellor's jape, the Italian government was not amused. Schmidt's aides promptly reached for their own reverse gears. Accepting German denials that Schmidt had ever made the remark, the Italian embassy in Bonn declared the case closed. "After all," an official observed diplomatically, "Germany and Italy are NATO allies and members of the European community...
...huge office of the Secretary of Defense fit his large frame better. His reach then went to Sitka, Bonn and Tokyo, instead of across a single desk piled with mail. He used to command 3.1 million people. He now has one secretary...
...rate of inflation is now only 5.1%, a pace that would allow the Schmidt government to move to more stimulative policies. But so far Bonn has held back, contending that to follow a more vigorous course would only risk re-igniting German inflation without doing much to boost demand in the depressed economies of its chief trading partners -a rather Ford-like position. Though the government has made some stabs at stimulation with investment grants, tax cuts and a highway spending program, German businessmen continue to hold down capital spending. Jittery German consumers are also saving an inordinate amount...