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...that the State Department issued a somewhat laundered transcript of the talk, the damage had been done. Europe was stunned. Said French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert, who later in the week accompanied President Georges Pompidou on a state visit to the Soviet Union: "Kissinger does not understand Europe." In Bonn, a ranking German official complained: "Now we have a cold war between America and Europe." A Belgian official advised Europe to "try to behave, publicly at least, as if we did not hear Kissinger's remarks...
...efforts to find a peaceful settlement in the Middle East and could work at cross-purposes to the coordinating group created by the recent Washington energy conference. Kissinger has known since last November that France was urging the EEC to call such a conference. But when he visited Bonn on March 3, he was led to believe by West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel that the EEC was not yet ready to accept the French proposal. Thus Kissinger believed that he still had time to dissuade the Market's leaders from going ahead with the conference. When...
...governments are attempting to rule in Britain, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. There were no effective governments at all last week in Italy and Belgium. In France, isolated and ailing President Georges Pompidou did little to restore confidence in his ability to govern by a largely cosmetic Cabinet reshuffling. In Bonn, Chancellor Willy Brandt, increasingly distant and indecisive, has seen his party's popularity plummet to its lowest level since 1957. In Britain, Prime Minister Harold Wilson has scraped into office with an avowed distaste for his country's membership in the European Economic Community...
...escape the tumult, many government officials and businessmen did not bother to come to work. West German President Gustav Heinemann loaded several bundles of documents in his car and drove off to his country house. When one Bonn burgher called information to get the emergency number of the municipal hospital, the answer was a gale of shrieking laughter...
Even West Germany, which officially disdains the sale of armaments, is said to be back in the arms business. Despite government denials, reports persist that Bonn is negotiating to build a tank-parts factory in Teheran. Private German armsmakers report soaring sales to the Middle East and tacit government encouragement of any deal likely to win favor with the oil exporters. Says a veteran weapons dealer in Bonn: "If you know the secret word, you can get an arms export license to any Arab country in eight days. The secret word...