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Since then, to Washington's dismay, the West German government has caused confusion in Western ranks by hinting that it is interested in the revival of a compromise plan that U.S. Negotiator Paul Nitze and his Soviet counterpart Yuli Kvitsinsky worked out during a stroll in the Jura Mountains above Geneva last summer. The walk-in-the-woods proposal, as it came to be called, was disavowed by Washington and Moscow. But West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher seemed to resurrect it last month when he told a reporter during a visit to Bulgaria that "the closer...
LIKE THE WORK of P.D.Q. Bach, The Name of the Rose is supposedly the long lost manuscript of an unknown, in this case an unknown monk. Nor does the comparison end there: like its musical counterpart which combines serious composition with more popular and humorous melodies, this book presents accurate history, philosophy, and semiotics in the form of a good old mystery novel and one not entirely devoid of humor at that...
Talk of a reunited Germany has always frightened the Soviets, but that did not deter Kohl from raising the subject forthrightly. He defended the right of Germans to think about the peaceful reunification of West Germany and its Soviet-dominated counterpart in the future. "I told Mr. Andropov: 'What would you say as a Soviet patriot if Moscow were divided, if the Soviet Union were divided?' " Kohl reported. He also asked that the Soviet Union grant exit visas to an estimated 100,000 ethnic Germans who seek to emigrate to West Germany. In addition, Kohl risked offending...
...range nuclear forces in Europe. According to Downey, Soviet Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, first deputy chief of the General Staff, told consider group of Congressmen that Moscow might be willing to consider a proposal similar to one discussed a year ago between U.S. Arms Negotiator Paul Nitze and his Soviet counterpart, Yuli Kvitsinsky. That formula, worked out by the two negotiators at Geneva during their famous "walk in the woods," was subsequently disavowed by the Kremlin and the White House. The proposal called for the U.S. to abandon the planned deployment of 108 Pershing II missiles in West Germany in exchange...
...meeting with Andropov would help Reagan politically in 1984, since it would probably soften his cold warrior image. But others reportedly feel that it could backfire unless it yields progress on arms control. In the past, Reagan has said he would be willing to sit down with his Soviet counterpart only if there was a chance of producing substantive results...