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Parties like West Germany's Greens, who have long opposed the stationing of U.S. missiles in Europe, are capitalizing on such fears and arguing against anything and everything nuclear with renewed vigor. Last week the Greens adopted a two-pronged program calling on Bonn to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and abolish nuclear power. "The connection is obvious," says Uwe Nehrlich, director of West Germany's Research Institute for International Politics and Security...
Soviet officials were reluctant to seek much outside assistance while still trying to pretend that not much had happened. Tuesday morning at 8:10, a scientific liaison officer from the Soviet embassy in Bonn appeared, unannounced and without an appointment, at the office of the Atomforum, a nongovernment agency that represents West Germany's nuclear power industry. He asked Atomforum's Peter Haug if the Germans knew anyone who could advise his country on how to put out a graphite fire. A similar request went out the same day to the Swedish nuclear authority. The U.S. Government stepped forward...
Outside the Soviet Union, the Chernobyl meltdown is likely to cast a long global shadow. "Chernobyl will reanimate the entire nuclear debate in Western Europe," said Thomas Roser of Bonn's Atomforum. "All the people who object to nuclear power will have this week's disaster as a symbol...
Europe: Lawrence Malkin London: Christopher Ogden, Mary Cronin, Steven Holmes, William Rademaekers Paris: Jordan Bonfante, B. J. Phillips, Adam Zagorin Bonn: William McWhirter, John Kohan Rome: Erik Amfitheatrof, Sam Allis, Wilton Wynn Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson Jerusalem: Roland Flamini Middle East: Dean Fischer Cairo: John Borrell Bahrain: Barry Hillenbrand Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: James Willwerth Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Sandra Burton, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Edwin M. Reingold, Yukinori Ishikawa Melbourne: John Dunn Canada: Peter Stoler, Ed Ogle Caribbean: Bernard Diederich Mexico City: Harry Kelly...
...targets did not come until the following Sunday. That allowed time for a last-minute mission by Vernon Walters, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and a veteran troubleshooter, to sound out European allies on their attitudes. On Saturday, Sunday and Monday, he visited in quick succession London, Madrid, Bonn, Paris and Rome...