Word: egon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moscow appeared intent on conveying its warning to West Germans through the left wing of the opposition Social Democratic Party and through East German Leader Erich Honecker. After two days of meetings with officials in Moscow, Egon Bahr, a West German defense expert and prominent Social Democrat, declared that "negotiations in Geneva will lose their meaning the minute the first new missiles are deployed." Honecker, meanwhile, sent a letter to Chancellor Kohl warning him of a "new ice age" in relations between the two Germanys unless the Bonn government strives "to put a stop to the arms escalation...
...inherent in categories of genre from the art world" and "to continually create a place of expression." The Seibu museum and its offshoots in Nagano and Funabashi have mounted shows on subjects as diverse as Marcel Duchamp and Edvard Munch, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Jasper Johns, Paul Klee and Egon Schiele. Today Seibu is the most influential source of direct contact with Western art in Japan, quite apart from the immense influence it has on popular attitudes toward design...
Some West Europeans, anxious over the Reagan Administration's hard line toward Moscow, also feel uncomfortable about leaving out the British and French forces. Among them are a number of Socialist politicians, including West German Social Democratic Arms Spokesman Egon Bahr and Denis Healey, deputy leader of the British Labor Party. Says Enrico Jacchia, director of the Italian Center for Strategic Studies in Rome: "A large part of public opinion in Europe feels that the French nuclear force exists, and the effect of saying it should not be counted causes confusion. People think the Americans are playing a trick...
...encouragement of the Social Democrats certainly injured that party and its claim to represent independent German interests. Only the fact that the Soviets have meddled and miscalculated in other elections in other countries can explain such foolhardy blindness. Big losers here may be former Chancellor Brandt and armaments expert Egon Bahr, both exponents of a soft-left, nationalist Social Democracy...
...Egon Strauss...