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...targets did not come until the following Sunday. That allowed time for a last-minute mission by Vernon Walters, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and a veteran troubleshooter, to sound out European allies on their attitudes. On Saturday, Sunday and Monday, he visited in quick succession London, Madrid, Bonn, Paris and Rome...
...news story that requires coordinating coverage of events occurring in swift succession in several cities presents a special challenge. This week's dramatic story of the release and arrival in the West of Soviet Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky was just such an occasion. Days before the Soviets handed over Shcharansky, Bonn Bureau Chief William McWhirter set about covering the final days of delicate negotiations for Shcharansky's freedom. He dispatched Correspondent John Kohan, Russian fur hat and extra sweaters in hand, to Berlin to stake out the Glienicker Bridge. Says Kohan, who speaks both German and Russian: "The swap closed...
Shortly after Regan took over as chief of staff last January, the normally discreet McFarlane began grumbling about his job. He first felt shunted aside by Regan at the European economic summit last spring in Bonn. The National Security Adviser had opposed the President's visit on the same trip to a German military cemetery at Bitburg, where Nazi SS officers were buried, but Reagan went ahead with it. When Reagan was hospitalized for cancer surgery in July, the chief of staff had McFarlane present his daily security briefings to the President in writing, rather than orally. At the same...
...their interventions known. Each country naturally focuses on its own money. Last week the Bank of Japan snapped up yen to boost their value, while the West German Bundesbank concentrated on buying deutsche marks. The Federal Reserve swapped dollars for both currencies to support the actions of Tokyo and Bonn...
...Bundesbank put $4 billion into a $10 billion international fund to buy currencies, Washington supplied only $600 million. That left the Germans vulnerable to a big loss when the price of the dollar rose again this summer, lowering the value of the marks that they had bought. Now Bonn wants assurances that the U.S. will do its share to finance the current fund, which is certain to be larger...