Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Angered by the alacrity with which the West Germans had agreed to turn over the three Arabs, Israel temporarily recalled its ambassador to Bonn. Complained Foreign Minister Abba Eban: "Who knows what people have been condemned to death or injury by their release?" In response, Israeli Phantoms made strikes on four Palestinian camps near Damascus. The Syrian government later said at least 65 people had been killed, few of them fedayeen...
West Germany, with the tragedy of Munich fresh in mind, has taken harsher measures against Arabs than has any other European nation. Bonn has banned the 1,000-member General Union of Palestinian Workers and the smaller General Union of Palestinian Students. The government, conscious of 55,000 Arabs living in the country, said it had acted to prevent "the transfer of violent conflicts" to West Germany. Bonn also expelled 44 Arabs suspected of political activity contrary to German law, tightened up visa requirements and established an elite police force to deal specifically with subversion and terror. But Bonn...
...year-old government. As he can justly boast, he has reduced "tension and confrontation" between the two Germanys and between the East and West blocs. By signing treaties with Moscow and Warsaw that renounced Germany's old land claims-and by accepting the division of Germany into what Bonn now refers to as "two states in one nation" -Brandt led the way toward détente in Europe. His early initiatives eventually led to a four-power agreement on Berlin, the first direct negotiations between the two Germanys, and an improved climate for an international conference on European security...
...Palais Schaumburg office. "Our policy toward Eastern Europe serves our own national interests as well as the overall efforts of the Western alliance. How could voters possibly trust them [the C.D.U.-C.S.U.] to carry on this foreign policy, trust those who rejected almost everything that Washington, London, Paris and Bonn have tried to accomplish in the field of East-West détente these past three years?" Farther afield, Brandt pointed out, "We shall establish diplomatic relations with China this month." Turning to domestic matters, the Chancellor argued that the C.D.U. was wrong on its major issue of inflation...
Much of the sound and fury of West Germany's election campaign is concentrated in Bonn and the country's bigger cities. Yet it is in the smaller towns and countryside, where 60% of the nation's 60 million people live, that the election will be largely decided. Typical of that quiet majority are the citizens of Limburg on the Lahn, a town of 21,000 in the geographic heartland of West Germany, 40 miles from Frankfurt. Relatively rich, traditionally conservative, proud of its 1,000-year history, Limburg (not to be confused with the province...