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Ronald Reagan had hoped to go to Bitburg buoyed by an important success in economic diplomacy. Instead, he departed from Bonn for the wreath-laying ceremony smarting from a fresh setback. His 2 1/2 days of discussions in the West German capital with the leaders of six other major industrial powers were always polite and often were even marked by effusive mutual compliments; no one wanted to add a public squabble about economics to the uproar over Bitburg. But there was no disguising the fact that French President Francois Mitterrand blocked Reagan from getting what he most wanted from...
...discussion of what had been expected to be another major topic at the summit: how to keep an American economic slowdown from triggering world recession. That will require faster growth in other countries, and some gingerly efforts are under way to promote it, but there was little analysis in Bonn of whether those efforts are adequate. At the formal sessions and in the final communique, the heads of government merely described the policies they are already following and pledged themselves to such unexceptionable goals as fighting inflation and creating jobs. Such cascades of generalities are hardly unusual at economic summits...
Another subject about which nothing was said in public but a lot in private was the U.S. embargo on trade with Nicaragua that was announced when Reagan arrived in Bonn last Wednesday (see WORLD). The other leaders were annoyed by both the policy and its timing. Said a West German official: "There will always be the impression that there was approval or a secret understanding with us. There wasn...
...German government accredited 3,858 print and TV journalists from 53 nations to last week's summit; the White House provided them with a 32-page schedule covering virtually every step to be taken by President Reagan and the White House press corps during the first four days in Bonn. NBC Correspondent Irving R. Levine clambered onto a restaurant table so cameras could present a clear shot of him delivering his report with the Rhine in the background. The reporters raced among briefings often conducted simultaneously in five languages and scrambled for every scrap of news or reasonable facsimile thereof...
...summits has been to try to coordinate the domestic policies of the world's major industrial nations so that one nation's targets for trade, inflation or growth are not in conflict with another's. This effort has had mixed and occasionally unforeseen results, most notably in Bonn in 1978, when the seven tried to coordinate their growth targets in a "locomotive" strategy led by Germany and Japan. The locomotive crashed into the 1979-80 oil crisis, and at later summits all seven switched their emphasis to fighting inflation even at the cost of expansion...