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...England, Scotland and Wales are drinkers. Beer consumption is down slightly, however, due to high unemployment and increased taxes on alcohol. In West Germany, beer intake has tripled over three decades, to 9 billion liters annually. "We have a saying," says an official of the National Health Ministry in Bonn, "that 'a man isn't a man until he's been drunk...
After the vexing economic summit in Bonn and the controversial visit to the Bitburg military cemetery, Reagan's second week in Europe was largely upbeat and colorful, with everything from a joyous German pep rally to unruly Spanish protests. The Strasbourg speech put the President back on the diplomatic high ground. The address underscored the theme of resurgent democracy that Reagan repeated throughout his ten-day stay in Europe. "History is on the side of the free," he said, "because freedom is right and because freedom works...
More impartial witnesses gave his trip mixed reviews. The Bonn economic summit ended in disappointment when French President Francois Mitterrand refused to join the other leaders in agreeing to a new round of trade talks. Reagan managed to defuse the Bitburg uproar, but the incident nevertheless left a sour taste. By and large, however, Reagan handled his diplomatic duties with sensitivity and skill. Whether they liked him or not, Europeans could no longer dismiss him as an unschooled cowboy, as they did a few short years...
...reasons for holding the meetings was supposed to be that the problems of coordinating an interdependent global economy were too important to be left to technicians, who tended to get hung up on minutiae and needed guidance from political chiefs who presumably could take a broader view. But at Bonn, where the political leaders could not even set a date for trade talks, it did not quite work out that...
...drugs was a main topic of discussion at a state dinner on Thursday night near Bonn. Later, President Reagan told staffers, "Never have I seen my summit partners as united on a single subject." On returning to Bonn, the First Lady was delighted to hear of her influence at the summit. When asked what she had got out of her conversation with the Pontiff, she replied, "Encouragement. From the Pope, you can't ask for more than that...