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Unlike at Versailles, where Reagan often found himself in a minority on East-West issues, at Williamsburg he should have comfort in numbers. Three of his fellow leaders - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and West Germany's Kohl - share many of Reagan's economic and social philosophies. The others -Mitterrand, Trudeau and Italian Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani - lean more to the center and the left...
...Versailles. The heads of government from the Big Seven industrial nations* are hoping that the outcome of their ninth annual economic summit, to be held in Williamsburg at the end of this month, will be equally different. Last year's summit in Versailles degenerated into bitter wrangling over East-West trade, and the leaders are desperately anxious to avoid a replay...
...Eastern Europe." He wondered if the SS-20 program was simply the mechanistic reflex of the Soviet military establishment or part of a longer-term political strategy. If Moscow's aim is political blackmail, he said, then Western Europe should begin to brace for a period of high East-West tension after the deployment of NATO's own intermediate-range missiles...
...lead to sharp disputes at Williamsburg if President Ronald Reagan persists in trying to force Western Europe to curb trade with the East bloc for political reasons. Louis Kawan, the European Commission's director for foreign affairs, reported that European governments agreed that nothing should be done to reinforce the military capacity of the Soviet Union. At the same time, he pointed out that the European Community conducts 60% of the industrialized world's East-West commerce and that such trade "provides stability for European economies and thus strengthens the alliance." There was no proof, he argued, that...
...sides of the Atlantic show public support that could be mobilized for the Atlantic Alliance. As the alliance's leader, it was widely agreed, the U.S. must be more sensitive to the gusts of anxiety that shake Western Europe, and the Reagan Administration must moderate its language on East-West issues. At one point during the conference, Senator Tsongas told Richard Burt, "If you assume that the next battlefield is the European heart and mind, to coin an old Viet Nam expression, if that is where the fight is now, how does one rationalize the rhetoric which is giving...