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...Community life that in the past has stymied bold initiatives. As before, the French seem to be the main obstacle. While the European allies would all greatly prefer to act under the Community's umbrella, some appear to be edging toward taking tough measures unilaterally to back the U.S. Bonn and the powerful West German business community now favor economic moves against Iran that they once opposed. Said Otto Wolff von Amerongen, president of the West German Chambers of Industry and Commerce: "The time has now come to support the Americans. Sanctions are in order...
...would, among other things, freeze $6 billion of Iranian funds deposited in West German banks, cut off all shipments of technology and spare parts to Iranian industry and further pare the already skeletal West German diplomatic mission in Tehran. Remarked a senior chancellery official in Bonn: "This should go a long way toward backing the U.S. even if our other West European allies do not necessarily follow." Britain is ready to join the West Germans in imposing trading sanctions and further reducing its embassy staff...
...backing for the U.S., not because they were convinced of the wisdom of Carter's policy. The nine members of the European Community and Japan recalled temporarily their ambassadors from Tehran, though this was far from completely breaking relations as Washington had done. A senior foreign ministry official in Bonn argued that Western diplomats in Tehran would help the U.S. work to free the hostages. He also warned that the Soviets would take advantage of the power vacuum: "We should not make room for them...
...nuclear arsenal and boycotting this summer's Moscow Olympic Games. In Paris, Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko stated that unless the allies resist, they would be turned into "an instrument for America's global policy" and would allow the U.S. to "attain strategic objectives on the backs of others." When Bonn indicated that it would probably follow the U.S. lead and boycott the Olympics, the Soviet Ambassador to West Germany warned that such a decision would have "political consequences in the relations between the Federal Republic and the Soviet Union." Japan also announced its support of the boycott last week, which...
...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...