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...aides attended to last-minute details of Bush's itinerary, the whirlwind of activity over the missiles was already well under way in Europe. In Bonn, Paul Nitze, 76, the chief U.S. negotiator in the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks with the Soviet Union in Geneva, dropped hints of his own that the Administration was edging away from the zero proposal. After Nitze met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Defense Minister Manfred Wōrner, a senior West German official said: "The word used most often by Nitze was flexibility, with balance spoken more softly afterward...
According to another top official in Bonn, Nitze told the West Germans that he had Reagan's authorization to pursue "all possibilities of balanced results." The official left the meeting with the distinct impression that one such possibility might be similar to the proposal that Nitze explored with his Soviet counterpart, Yuli A. Kvitsinsky, last summer. According to that scenario, later rejected by both Washington and Moscow, the U.S. would base 75 cruise missiles in Western Europe while the Soviet Union would pare its arsenal...
...departure, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher visited Washington for meetings with Reagan, the Vice President and other senior Administration officials. The visit, undertaken at Genscher's request, provided more hints that the U.S. might not hold to its present posture in Geneva. In exchange for Bonn's "firm support" of the zero proposal, Genscher too received American assurances of "flexibility...
...flurry of hints was enough to prompt cautious relief in Bonn, the first, and easily most crucial, stop on Bush's trip. "The West's policy was never all or nothing," noted West German Defense Minister Worner. "The allies should resist all divisive tactics." During his three-day stay in West Germany, Bush is to deliver a major address at a West Berlin dinner at which Mayor Richard von Weizsacker will be host, as well as meet with government and opposition leaders in Bonn. One problem the Vice President faces is avoiding the appearance of attempting to influence...
Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Kohl's Foreign Minister and the leader of the Free Democrats, in campaigning against Vogel declared that Bonn is not contemplating any change in the 1983 deployment date. But Genscher has also waffled on the deployment question. Addressing party officials, he went so far as to argue that an interim agreement was implicit in the initial "double-track" strategy adopted by NATO in 1979. Genscher said that the alliance could indeed stretch out deployment while talks continued...