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...West Germans opposed the imposition of sanctions and planned to go ahead with their aid commitments to Poland, which include $17 million in food. The Bonn government is anxious to preserve whatever is left of détente. So it took the position that General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish armed forces commander and Premier, had declared martial law not because he was ordered to do so by the Soviet Union, but because he was seeking to ward off Soviet intervention. This view was essentially shared by the British government, which believed that the Soviets had pressed Warsaw to crush Solidarity...
Until the story broke through the blackout, coverage of Polish events was dominated by TIME'S Bonn bureau, which relied heavily on its network of contacts in Stockholm, Vienna and Eastern Europe to funnel in information. Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, having returned from Poland four days before the crackdown, had an advantage in evaluating the scene and the fragments of data seeping in. Flamini had visited Katowice, the mining center where many of last week's clashes occurred, talked with Polish Archbishop Jozef Glemp and shared a journey from Gdansk to Warsaw, and a cup of tea, with...
...Schmidt government, in its pursuit of Ostpolitik, is anxious to resume negotiations with East Germany, in the hope of easing ultra-German relations and perhaps achieving a larger measure of detente between East and West. Bonn's long-range concerns have already produced windfalls for the East, which reaps benefits from credits, deutsche marks and other hard currency from the West. Lagging behind West Germany in virtually every aspect of economic life, East Germany has vastly gained from interest-free credits extended by Bonn. These credits, amounting to $383 million annually, made possible last year an 18.7% rise...
Speaking on what he called the traditional issue of East-West relations. Karl Kaiser, director of the Institute of Foreign Policy Research in Bonn, Germany, said the peace movement threatened NATO's strategy of "flexible response" to any Soviet nuclear threat. He questioned whether NATO governments could in the future design and implement national security strategies without the Soviet Union subtly undermining their public support...
...Bonn, Kvitsinsky came across as outspoken, unyielding and yet not dogmatic. "He always takes the Soviet line, but he doesn't talk ideology," one fellow diplomat observes. "After a while you even get to like him." That will not make him easy to deal with. Warns a Soviet colleague: "If you compare his age with Nitze's, you will see who has more time to sit and talk in Geneva...