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...change of leadership in Bonn has not alleviated West German resentment about President Reagan's ban on the sale of U.S.-licensed European-made equipment and technology to the Soviets for the 3,000-mile Siberia-Europe natural gas pipeline. Like Schmidt, Kohl has made it clear that West German companies, such as giant Mannesmann, which has $390 million in pipeline contracts with the Soviet Union, should honor their commitments. That resolve hardened when the Reagan Administration last month announced its decision to sell the Soviet Union 23 million tons of wheat, or 15 million more than last year...
Other U.S. allies echo Kosciusko-Morizet's view that the organization, no matter how troubled it may be, still serves a purpose. Says a Bonn-based diplomat: "We do not underestimate the U.N.'s value as a peace-keeping force. We would not have had 30 years of peace in [Western Europe] without the U.N." British officials, who strongly agree with the Reagan Administration that U.N. agencies have become far too infected with Third World politics, particularly over the Arab-Israeli issue, feel that the U.N. remains a valuable diplomatic umbrella...
Like Ronald Reagan, he is a folksy, conservative politician with an easygoing, leisurely work style. But last week, West Germany's newly chosen Chancellor Helmut Kohl, 52, was behaving like a man without a moment to lose. Within three hours of taking over the glass-and-steel Bonn Chancellery from Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt, the Christian Democratic leader had sworn in a new 17-member Cabinet, chaired his first Cabinet meeting, held a press conference and jetted off to Paris for a hastily arranged get-acquainted dinner with his most important Western European partner, French President Fran...
...faces between now and March will be to keep to that course. If he fails, the risk is that the Greens may replace his minority partner Free Democrats as the swing party in the promised elections. If that happens, West Germany, already involved in what one veteran diplomat in Bonn calls "a period of unprecedented political, economic and emotional turmoil," could face even worse upheaval. -By George Russell...
...only in Algiers and Tehran but also in London, Istanbul, Paris, Bonn and other world political and financial capitals, related negotiations had been under way for weeks. Sunday, on my last visit to Camp David, I had signed the 15 documents necessary to initiate the financial transactions. Under the agreement worked out through the Algerians, enough Iranian funds would be held in escrow to pay any legitimate American claims. The Bank of England had been chosen to hold the escrow account in the name of the Algerian central bank. The balance would be returned to Iran. The Iranian gold...