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Vodka and good feeling flowed the last time an entourage from the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council, composed of high-powered American businessmen, met with Soviet leaders in Moscow. That was in 1978, before crises in Afghanistan and Poland chilled East-West relations and put an end to the group's Moscow trips. But last week the eight-year-old organization, whose 210-member roster includes such capitalist colossi as Xerox Corp. and RCA Corp., revealed that it is heading back on another trade-promotion trip Nov. 16. Says Michael Forrestal, a past council president: "U.S. executives generally...
...been pinned down in his Washington office by the crossfire in Lebanon. "I can't remember when I last spent so long in the same time zone," jokes the former globetrotting corporate executive. Finally, last week, he found a way to tend to the simmering dilemmas of East-West relationships as well as the pressing problems of the Middle East while staying close to home. At the United Nations to address the 37th session of the General Assembly, Shultz conducted a diplomatic shuttle among more than 30 foreign ministers-all without leaving Manhattan's East Side...
...Disputes over 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...
...were the other European Foreign Ministers Shultz consulted: Britain's Francis Pym, Italy's Emilio Colombo and Belgium's Leo Tindemans. Shultz will now try to sort out the common interests that he heard in his conversations and propose an alliance policy on East-West trade. While the pipeline problem seems beyond solution at the moment, Shultz's fence may help contain the dispute...
...demands for higher defense spending. Though some officials in the Reagan Administration hope that a more conservative government in Bonn will be easier to deal with on such touchy issues as sanctions against the Soviet Union, most experts consider Kohl just as committed as Schmidt to detente and East-West trade. While quibbling about details, the Christian Democrats have generally supported Schmidt's decision to help finance the controversial Soviet gas pipeline. But the tenor of U.S.-West German relations may change. Schmidt, for example, annoyed Americans by failing to conceal his contempt for Presidents Carter and Reagan. "Kohl...