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...statement was aimed less at disarmament than at buttressing public opposition to the U.S. missiles in Western Europe. The West German government rejected the proposal out of hand. "The West cannot accept a status quo that gives permanence to a Soviet advantage, with no NATO counterweight," said an official Bonn statement. "The policy must remain one of parity...
...help with short-term roll over deals and other bilateral measures. The U.S., for example, immediately announced the deferment of $88 million in Polish debt payments that would have been due over the next four months. West German Economics Minister Otto Lambsdorff assured Polish Deputy Premier Henryk Kisiel that Bonn would be willing to cooperate in comparable ways...
...Bonn, Paris and London all expressed concern, however, about just how far the U.S. should go in supporting the military-civilian junta now ruling El Salvador. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is in an especially uncomfortable position, since leftists in Schmidt's own Social Democratic Party support the Salvadoran guerrillas. Officials in all three capitals made it clear that they would like to see the U.S. strive for a negotiated settlement between the warring factions in El Salvador rather than risk escalating the conflict by supplying more arms. Officials in Bonn and Paris also asked the U.S. to urge...
...seems ill-disposed to accept. Thus a dangerous potential for new clashes remained. Ultimately, the Poles and their leaders could only hope they might transcend the hazards by cleaving to a bedrock sense of nationalism that has sustained the country through almost two centuries of foreign encroachments. As a Bonn Foreign Ministry expert put it last week, "Whatever their ideological bent, Poles agree fully on one thing: they don't want the Russians...
...grounds." But that public reassurance was intended to counter widespread reports that Secretary of State Alexander Haig is becoming pessimistic about the outcome of the Polish crisis. Privately, Haig and his top aides believe that it may deteriorate into chaos and create an unacceptable challenge to Moscow. Experts in Bonn and London tend to share that gloomy view, but still feel that the Soviets would move only as a last resort. Says one senior British diplomat: "If they send in the Red Army, they will have created a nightmare that will make Afghanistan look like a tea party." The Soviets...