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...Soviets, Haig said, "It would be hard to call the West guilty of interference. And we have increasingly insisted that others not interfere either." The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was ready to call an emergency meeting of foreign ministers if the situation in Poland warranted. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was described as "very upset" by events, though he stressed that "the news from Poland could have been worse"-meaning Soviet troops were not involved...
...sites that the East Germans chose for the summit meeting between their party chief, Erich Honecker, and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt were awash with symbolism. One was East Germany's Hubertusstock, once the hunting lodge of Prussian kings; the other, a guesthouse at Döllnsee, in a wooded area to the north of East Berlin, now serves as a lakeside retreat for Honecker, the German Democratic Republic's boss since 1971. The guesthouse is also the place where Honecker, as chief of East Germany's internal security apparatus in 1961, received orders to begin construction...
...three-day meeting was the first formal conclave on East German soil between East and West German leaders since Chancellor Willy Brandt helped launch his Ostpolitik in 1970 by meeting with East German Premier Willi Stoph in Erfurt, 40 miles east of the frontier. Initiated by the East Germans, the weekend summit had been twice postponed because of East-West friction over the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the continuing crisis in Poland. A further irritant was provided last year by the Honecker government's new currency regulations, which greatly increased the cost of travel from West...
...Soviet action was evidently prompted by pressure from abroad. The Kremlin leaders had become increasingly alarmed about the Soviet image in the West as pro-Sakharov demonstrations erupted in European capitals, and world statesmen, including Pope John Paul II, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and President Reagan, expressed their concern. The Soviets have always held back from taking extreme measures against Sakharov because of his international celebrity as the much decorated nuclear physicist who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb. He later went on to gain greater fame as the champion of human rights in the U.S.S.R. and the winner...
...days before Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev flew to Bonn last week for talks with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, officials of Ruhrgas A.G., the major West German natural-gas company, gave a boost to the meeting by signing a 25-year agreement for the annual purchase of 10.5 billion cubic meters of Soviet...