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...Haig jetted off to consult officials in Rome, Madrid, London, Paris and Bonn, there was some concern that the Secretary of State-indeed, the Reagan Administration itself-might be engaging in verbal overkill in warning about the dangers of Soviet expansionism. In his meeting with Israeli officials in Jerusalem, for example, Haig speculated that the Soviet Union might have inspired the Syrian assault in Lebanon possibly to divert attention from the Polish crisis. The consensus of Western diplomats in the Middle East is that the Syrians acted on their...
Weinberger also raised eyebrows and hackles in Europe by portraying détente as an unmitigated failure for the West from the very beginning. In a speech in Bonn, he argued that the Soviets had taken advantage of détente to boost their own defenses, adding that "if the movement from cold war to detente is progress, then let me say we cannot afford much more progress." In Rome he denounced the "prison wall" that separates East and West Germany as the "great monument to Soviet imperialism," and noted that it had been "reinforced at great expense during...
Neither Syria nor Pakistan are Bonn signatories. But some experts feel that such sanctions should be imposed against them, anyway. If Syria gives the Pakistani hijackers sanctuary, says the University of Aberdeen's Paul Wilkinson, "the signatories of the Bonn declaration* should invoke its provisions for severing all air links with any country that gives haven to skyjackers." Adds Wilkinson: "We must make governments in high-risk areas painfully aware that they and the terrorists will pay a heavy price...
...housing-short Western Europe, but it has been gathering force in recent months, particularly in West Germany. Arrests of squatters have led to more demonstrations and begun to spill over into a broader, ill-defined protest against everything from materialism and technology to authority in general. Officials in Bonn fear the squatters' movement could become politicized or even develop links with terrorists...
...errors. The slogan "Come Alive with Pepsi" failed understandably in German when it was translated: "Come Alive out of the Grave with Pepsi." Elsewhere it was translated with more precision: "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back from the Grave." In 1965, prior to a reception for Queen Elizabeth II outside Bonn, Germany's President Heinrich Ltibke, attempting an English translation of "Gleich geht es los" (It will soon begin), told the Queen: "Equal goes it loose." The Queen took the news well, but no better than the President of India, who was greeted at an airport...