Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...March 20). The treaties, which call for mutual renunciation of force in settling disputes, are central to Soviet hopes of confirming the political status quo on the Continent while keeping the Communist bloc tightly insulated from contacts with the West. Brezhnev threatened that the consequences of a failure by Bonn to approve the treaties would be extremely serious. Said he: "The Federal Republic of Germany is now faced with a choice that will determine the fate of its people and the attitudes of other states toward it for many years to come." He then added an ominous warning...
...shifting pattern of East-West relations. Until recently the East German regime concentrated its propaganda attacks on West Germany, whose free society and economic prosperity have for years exerted an almost irresistible magnetism on Germany's poorer half. In the past year, however, as Moscow and Bonn have sought to establish better relations, East Germany has had no choice but to tone down its attacks on the Federal Republic...
...Frelimo, through the offices of Kenneth Kaunda. President of Zambia, told Italy that if the Italian government guaranteed export credits for Italian firms participating in Cobora Bassa, all Italian property in Zambia would be expropriated and nationalized. The Italians backed down. The Portuguese and South Africans flew off to Bonn and Paris, where they got increased backing. Political activity in Germany and France has not yet reached the level that it did in Sweden and Britain. So those companies are still involved...
Thus the whole fragile structure hinges on ratification of the Moscow treaty by Bonn's Bundestag, where Brandt's governing coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats until two weeks ago had a majority of 251 out of 496 seats. That slim margin is now imperiled. First, one Social Democrat Deputy declared himself opposed to the treaties and bolted to the opposition, reducing Brandt's support to 250 votes-only one more than the absolute majority necessary to ensure ratification of the treaties. Two weeks ago, a Free Democrat Deputy announced that he was undecided about...
...resumed East German harassment of traffic between West Germany and West Berlin and, at worst, could bring on another Berlin crisis. There would be an immediate break in the painfully protracted negotiations between West and East Germany on establishing normal relations between the two governments, and an end to Bonn's talks with Warsaw and Prague...