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...amount of public pressure was going to make Reagan change his mind. As he told TIME's Hugh Sidey only hours before leaving for Bonn: "We're not going there in the sense of forgive and forget. What I believe is needed is a recognition of what has been accomplished in Germany . . ." One bit of news that lifted the President's spirits before his departure from Washington was a private poll paid for by the Republican National Committee showing that Americans did not blame the President personally for the Bitburg problem...
Reagan's advisers did what they could to distract attention from Bitburg. Shortly after the President's arrival in Bonn, they announced an embargo on trade between the U.S. and the Marxist Sandinista regime of Nicaragua. They also quietly suggested that Kohl was mainly responsible for the Bitburg debacle, even as they publicly insisted that there had been no damage to the close relationship between the two leaders and their countries...
Whatever strains were placed on the Washington-Bonn alliance, they did not extend noticeably to the first-name working relationship that Reagan has established with Kohl. As they greeted each other warmly at the Chancellery, Reagan managed to get off a joke, this one about a theft in the Kremlin. What turned out to be missing, said the President, was "next year's election results." Kohl announced that if the President ran for office in West Germany, "he would be elected with a large majority." One U.S. participant in the talks said, however, that "nothing" new was brought...
...White House when the early planning occurred, failed to recognize the seriousness of the Bitburg blunder and to cut the President's losses. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, who is expected to be nominated as the next U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, embarrassed U.S. officials in Bonn by walking out on a press briefing. Evidently angered by a couple of interruptions in his presentation of a paraphrase of Kohl's remarks, Burt said a curt goodbye and left the room...
...gesture, by virtually everyone's assessment, of symbolism rather than of substance. Nonetheless, Reagan Administration strategists felt that it was time to raise the diplomatic stakes in Central America. Within hours of the President's arrival in Bonn last week, the Administration had certainly done that. At a press conference, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes revealed that beginning this week, the U.S. would put into effect an economic embargo against Nicaragua. The sanctions, as President Ronald Reagan put it in a formal message to Congress, "should be seen by the government of Nicaragua, and those who abet it, as unmistakable...