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Some of Western Europe's concerns will be on display for Ronald Reagan at the main diplomatic event of his controversial European visit, the annual economic summit meeting of seven leading industrial powers--the U.S., Britain, France, Italy, West Germany, Canada and Japan--that will take place in Bonn from May 2 to May 4. At the top of the summit agenda, along with problems of international trade, will be unhappiness over U.S. budget deficits, high interest rates and the uncertainties that the dollar is creating in European money markets...
Kohl's initiatives have, for the most part, produced less than glowing results. In Western Europe, the French, who otherwise have forged a close and cooperative relationship with their former enemy, have occasionally bridled at Bonn's assertiveness in economic matters. In the East, during the Euromissile debate, Moscow rolled out accusations of West German "revanchism," a reference to Nazi territorial ambitions of old. Kohl's attempts at burnishing national symbols have also met with limited success: West Germans still do less anthem singing and flag flying than their neighbors. Says Hans Mayer, professor emeritus of literature at Tübingen...
There is no question, according to Gerhard Herdegen, head of the Aliens-bach polling institute in Bonn, that West Germans "want to see the East and West blocs dissolved and the borders loosened," but they do not know how that goal can be reached. Another pollster, Hermann Bausinger of the Ludwig Uhland Institute in Tübingen, detects "a great insecurity about where the future will lead us all." The feeling, Bausinger finds, is strongest among intellectuals and young people...
...American downturn would be felt by nations that have been fueling their economies by exports to the U.S. At next month's economic summit conference in Bonn, Treasury Secretary James Baker and President Reagan will make a plea to U.S. trading partners to take up any slack caused by the slowing American expansion. Last week, during a meeting of the policymaking committees of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Baker heard foreign complaints that the U.S. must get its budget and trade deficits under control if the outlook for world economic growth is to remain favorable...
Peter Boenisch, a Bonn government spokesman, complaining about the uproar in the U.S. over the Bitburg visit, said, "We can't start denazification of the cemeteries." Exactly. That's the reason to stay away...