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...junior partners, the business-oriented Free Democrats, on how to finance an economic policy that would reduce West Germany's 8% unemployment rate, the highest in 30 years.To strengthen his position, Schmidt last week was preparing to reshuffle several key portfolios in his Cabinet.At the same time, Bonn's relations with Washington have been strained as the result of what the Reagan Administration sees as an insufficiently firm attitude toward Moscow. One oft cited example is Bonn's lack of support for economic sanctions against the Soviet Union in the wake of General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
Nonetheless, the Barbados party was about three times the size of the 110-person entourage that the leader of the other superpower, Leonid Brezhnev, took to Bonn last November. Leaders of other important countries make do with even less pomp. The standard for official modesty might belong to President Sandro Pertini of Italy, who, to be sure, fills a largely ceremonial office. When he came to Washington on a state visit last month, he took a chartered Alitalia jet and brought along a retinue of only 15. - By George J. Church...
...issue at stake is Bonn's support for a 1979 NATO decision to deploy 572 new U.S.-built intermediate-range nuclear missiles in five Western European countries, including West Germany, starting in late 1983. At the insistence of Schmidt and other Western European leaders, the alliance simultaneously called for negotiations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which began in Geneva last November, with the goal of reducing the number of atomic weapons in Europe. The Europeans hoped that, if the U.S. could persuade Moscow to eliminate the 300 SS-20 missile launchers that could be aimed at Western...
...show of force took place at a meeting of 800 delegates, who had gathered to plan a massive anti-nuclear demonstration to coincide with President Reagan's visit to Bonn on June 10. Representatives of the Greens, a coalition of West German environmental groups, demanded that the manifesto outlining the demonstration's purpose also criticize the arms buildup in the Soviet Union and not concentrate solely on the U.S. But the Greens were repeatedly shouted down by a loud contingent of Communists and sympathizers. Complained exiled East German Economist Rudolf Bahro, a leading member of the Greens, before...
When the generals wanted to explain their crackdown to the West Germans, Rakowski was naturally the man they sent to Bonn. Martial law, he said, was necessary to prevent the outbreak within "a matter of weeks" of a civil war that would have provoked a Soviet invasion. Stern Publisher Henri Nannen, who has known Rakowski for twelve years, considered his explanation sincere, and an American diplomat described him as a "man of integrity." In contrast, a respected West German analyst notes that Rakowski has a "weakness for ambition" and "always knows which way the wind blows." One British expert points...