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...explosive accusations aroused intense curiosity among Italy's allies. In the absence of detailed information about the evidence in Italian hands, most Western diplomats and intelligence officers remained cautious. The U.S. refused to make any statement supporting or denying the Italian charges. In Paris French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson noted that "the Italians are serious people. [Colombo] would not have taken the steps that you know about if there had not been some Bulgarian elements involved...
...Washington have been particularly chilly ever since Mitterrand refused to make concessions that would have enabled Reagan to save face while ending the U.S. sanctions against European companies participating in the construction of a Soviet gas pipeline to Western Europe. Last week Shultz and French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson gave every appearance of having patched up that squabble. It was announced that several study groups would be set up to explore ways of coordinating trade relations with the Soviet Union, but France still refused to commit itself to a new accord on East-West trade...
...East-West relations have provoked a divisive crisis within the Western alliance. Washington's attempt to impose sanctions on firms supplying equipment for the natural gas pipeline the Soviets are building from Siberia to Western Europe threatened to spoil Shultz's dinner with French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. "Obviously they were not going to sort it out over pate," said one U.S. official. So Shultz shifted the discussions to the broader terrain of East-West economic relations and sounded out Cheysson on what Western strategy ought to be. Said a Shultz aide: "He is taking...
Pipeline goes against the grain "This is kind of like a fight inside a family," said Ronald Reagan at his press conference last week. French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, who had likened the feud to a "progressive divorce," also tried to restore a modicum of household harmony. Said he: "In every good marriage, at times one talks about a divorce." After the transatlantic clash provoked by Washington's embargo on technology for the Soviet gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe, both the U.S. and its allies assessed the damage, found it considerable and decided to downplay the disagreement...
...bold departure on the part of the Mitterrand government, which since coming to office in May 1981 has studiously avoided open conflict with the Reagan Administration. Said French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson: "We no longer speak the same language. There is a remarkable incomprehension between Europe and the U.S." A recent French decision to renew arms sales to Nicaragua, despite a quiet pledge to Washington not to do so, has been widely interpreted as a signal of growing French pique over the sanctions...