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Summitry, an established and popular form of contemporary international diplomacy, requires enormous efforts of preparation and organization by literally thousands of people. So too with TIME staff members. This week's preview of the dual Western alliance summits at Versailles and in Bonn, and the visits by President Reagan with America's closest allies, required substantial preparation by TIME bureaus-including previews of the summit written by five European statesmen and collected by Senior European Correspondent William Rademaekers...
...Reagans' stay at Windsor Castle, even as the bureau, including Frank Melville and Art White, continued with its eighth consecutive week of reporting on the Falklands war. At the same time, Correspondent Mary Cronin was chronicling Pope John Paul II's historic visit to Britain. From Bonn, which will handle the last leg of the presidential tour, Bureau Chief Roland Flamini was trying to anticipate the possible diplomatic repercussions of planned demonstrations by the large West German antinuclear movement. Correspondent Diane L. Coutu was already in West Berlin laying the reportorial groundwork for President Reagan's visit...
There were, however, few signs of any regrets in other capitals. "The British pushed too hard and had it coming to them," said a West German official in Bonn. A French diplomat in Paris grumped, "Crisis? It would be fair to say that the European Community has been in a crisis ever since the British joined...
Western Europeans were less concerned with the substance of Reagan's proposal than with the fact that he had at last made one. The President is scheduled to travel to Paris, Rome, London, Bonn and West Berlin in three weeks, and he faces the prospect of large street demonstrations by members of the Continent's burgeoning peace movement. In Bonn, as many as 150,000 protesters are expected to mass on the banks of the Rhine across from the building where Reagan will be meeting with the leaders of other North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations. The tone...
...Bonn, a West German government spokesman declared his Cabinet's "dismay" at the toll of human life in the South Atlantic; Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was widely reported to have told the Cabinet that "there can be no blank check of solidarity with Britain." In Paris, the Socialist government of President François Mitterrand stated its "consternation" over the widening hostilities, and the French Council of Ministers called for a U.N.-negotiated settlement. The Italian government was more circumspect in its pronouncements, but popular pressure for a rethinking of all-out support for Britain was increasing; one reason...