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Sheep Crossing. Previously famed mainly as Ludwig van Beethoven's birthplace, Bonn today is known to diplomats as the most inconvenient, uncomfortable capital this side of Usumbura. True, the Rhine offers a lovely, healing view to harassed government types, but Bonn is Germany's rainiest (161.8 days a year) and most densely populated city; its traffic is the heaviest, its rentals among the highest. "The city is just half the size of Chicago's Central Cemetery," says a U.S. diplomat. "And twice as dead...
...Bundestag members and 12,150 federal employees, usually go to Cologne or Coblenz for amusement. Most U.S. diplomats and journalists live and entertain each other in Bad Godesberg, Bonn's picturesque neighbor, where the American colony is known variously as the Ghetto, the Compound or Westchester-on-Rhine...
America's policy of conventional weapons as defense against conventional attack justifies an independent French nuclear deterrent, Lipkowski maintained. Russian conventional forces are so massive, he said, that they could advance to the Rhine and present the United States with a falt accompll before American nonnuclear retaliation...
...Germans to sweep down on Italy. And this way, says legend, came Carthaginian Hannibal and his elephants. Climbing the other way, from the beautiful Val d'Aosta, came Caesar's Roman legions intent on conquering tripartite Gaul and planting the legionary eagles on the banks of the Rhine. Nineteen hundred years later, after crushing the Austrians at Marengo, Napoleon and his grenadiers retraced Caesar's path...
...still held. But many wondered for how long. Britain's central strategic reserve at home has been reduced to a collection of isolated units, her 5,000-man Aden force seriously depleted by East African demands, and in West Germany-where the NATO-committed British army of the Rhine is already some 3,000 troops below its pledged 55,000-man level-a 3,000-man brigade is poised for possible transfer to one of the trouble spots. Britain's 171,000-man army is 9,000 men short of its authorized strength, and is already spread...