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...several useful purposes to the administration's foreign policy, especially as the two countries resume arms control talks this week in Geneva. The most immediate effect of the "zero-option" was to provide German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt with ammunition to use against Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Brezhnev went to Bonn last week with the unambiguous goal of exploiting policy differences between West Germany--the linchpin of the U.S. NATO alliance--and the U.S. Reagan's proposal gave Schmidt the opportunity to reaffirm the common desire of the U.S. and NATO governments for serious negotiations on mid-range nuclear missiles...
Reagan's speech also showed American sensitivity to European domestic opinion. In the past four weeks, approximately 800,000 protesters have marched in the streets of London. Bonn and the Hague, demonstrating significant anti-nuclear sentiments in those countries. In Belgium and the Netherlands, domestic opposition to the planned deployment of nuclear missiles has forced the governments to delay their decisions on accepting the missiles. A strong faction is growing in Schmidt's Social Democratic party, though the chancellor remains staunchly committed to deployment should negotiations fail. He has been forced to delay deployment until April 1984 at the earliest...
...convinced of the Tightness of their cause." London Correspondent Mary Cronin, who attended a huge anti-nuclear demonstration in Hyde Park, compared "the solemnity, the pervasive anger and anxiety, the grim determination to stop what they see as disaster" with U.S. protests against the Viet Nam War. For Bonn Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, the controversy on nuclear defense in West Germany was both ubiquitous and cacophonous: "It swamps the pages of newspapers and washes in huge waves over television," says Flamini...
Never had the European climate seemed more favorable to Moscow's appeals for peace. Extensive demonstrations in Bonn, London, Brussels, Paris and Rome last month brought nearly a million people into the streets to protest the scheduled deployment of 572 NATO missiles beginning in 1983. Moreover, Europeans were increasingly jittery over U.S. nuclear strategy in the wake of Ronald Reagan's casual remark three weeks ago that an "exchange of tactical weapons against troops" in Europe was conceivable without escalating into an all out exchange between the two superpowers. Although it was misleadingly quoted out of context...
...Secretary of State Alexander Haig help matters when he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that NATO contingency plans included exploding a nuclear device as a "demonstration" to persuade the Soviets to fall back, should they seek to overrun Western Europe. Grumbled a Western diplomat in Bonn: "Which sounds best to the West Germans in the present circumstances, Brezhnev waffling about his desire for peace, or Haig waffling about firing a warning nuclear shot above the Russians' heads?" Lamented a member of Schmidt's divided Social Democratic Party: "Those who say 'Better red than dead...