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...justified, many Germans are unhappy at such meddling in their affairs. When they learned of the spying two weeks ago, an immediate demand went up for a government investigation. Germans suspected that the spying had taken place without government knowledge, which under German law is illegal. Last week Bonn finally admitted that it had known about U.S. Army spying-but added that the U.S. had asked and received permission for German operatives to carry out wiretapping and surveillance. In other words, it had all been legal...
...risk of nuclear war, but provides for only subsidiary talks with America's European allies. Chancellor Willy Brandt got a first taste of the agreement when he received no more than a vaguely worded letter from Nixon only 48 hours before the agreement was signed. From Bonn, TIME Correspondent Bruce Nelan reports that "the reaction to the nuclear agreement was a collective gasp in Western Europe. Almost everyone believes that De Gaulle is now vindicated in his view that the U.S. would not risk nuclear destruction to defend Europe or risk New York to save Hamburg...
Moscow's goals for the conference have changed over the years. The Soviet Union originally sought a treaty of collective security in Europe partly as a means of keeping West Germany out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Long after Bonn joined NATO, Moscow continued to press for a security conference, largely because it wanted formal recognition of existing postwar boundaries in Central Europe. Bilateral agreements have since sanctified most of the boundaries. More recently, Moscow seemed intent on using a security conference as an avenue to gaining Western economic cooperation and technical knowledge. That aim, too, has largely...
Rumania's President Nicolae Ceauşescu underlined this rare sense of independence on an official visit last week to West Germany. Like Brezhnev, who preceded him to Bonn by five and a half weeks, Ceauşescu was looking for more West German help to turn his country into a modern, industrialized nation...
...Chancellor has welcomed the investigation, declaring his willingness to testify before the committee. Yet, even if it appears that he did not know about the bribes, the deepening mess will likely dim his image. More worrisome, the corruption and venality in Bonn that the investigation is revealing could, in the extreme, topple Brandt. His demise could rekindle the familiar fears about the stability of West Germany's relatively young democratic institutions that accompany the nation's major political crises...