Word: bonne
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Tensions are also heightened by the different views that Washington and a Bonn or Paris bring to world problems. The U.S. is a global
...preferential friendship," while Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev last week invited Helmut Schmidt to go to Moscow early this summer for a long delayed summit meeting. The invitation surprised Schmidt, who promptly phoned Carter, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and other Western leaders to discuss Bonn's response to an overture clearly intended by the Soviets to split the allies. In view of the already existing tensions in the alliance, a chancellery aide in Bonn emphasized that Schmidt "is not going to rush into anything. We know full well what is at stake, and the last thing...
Trade also influences allied attitudes toward the Soviet Union. Bonn is Moscow's top trading partner in the West; their combined trading volume last year totaled $7.6 billion, compared with $765 million in 1970. Paris wants to increase trade with Moscow, which last year totaled $3.7 billion. As a whole, the E.C. sold $12 billion in goods to the Soviets last year, almost four times the $3.4 billion (mostly grain) sold by the U.S. Understandably, Western Europeans strongly emphasize trade factors when advocating a more restrained policy toward the U.S.S.R. Understandably the U.S. is not very receptive to such arguments...
...Administration's approach to the Soviets: the generally cautious Secretary of State Cyrus Vance or the more hawkish National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. This has prompted the West Germans to label the U.S. policy as one characterized by Wirrwarr or confusion. Concludes a top-ranking chancellery official in Bonn: "Carter's motives have been beyond question, as has been his integrity. It's been his lack of aptitude that has undermined his reliability...
...must not be more American than the Americans." As half of a divided nation, West Germany is reluctant to pursue policies that could impair the ability of its citizens to visit their relatives in East Germany or that could once again raise tensions around Berlin. In the aftermath of Bonn's condemnation of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for example, Moscow forced cancellation...