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...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...
Speaking on what he called the traditional issue of East-West relations. Karl Kaiser, director of the Institute of Foreign Policy Research in Bonn, Germany, said the peace movement threatened NATO's strategy of "flexible response" to any Soviet nuclear threat. He questioned whether NATO governments could in the future design and implement national security strategies without the Soviet Union subtly undermining their public support...
Haig has also led the Administration, and himself, through a series of mid-course corrections in what originally seemed to be an oversimplified East-West view of the world. Although the U.S. has yet to develop a comprehensive Middle East policy, the early emphasis on forging a strategic anti-Soviet consensus in the region has been balanced by giving more attention to resolving the Palestinian question. Latin-American policy has long been dominated by concern over El Salvador, which Washington charged was being threatened by leftist rebels whose support came from Cuba and Nicaragua. In a meeting with Nicaragua...
...government officials said, the action appeared to be a "purely Polish" move, although clearly one that met approval from the Soviets. If Soviet involvement were deteccted by the U.S., the Reagan administration has said, it would have a chilling effect on East-West relations and possibly endanger the bilateral nuclear arms talks begun this month in Geneva...
...ahead for the biggest East-West deal ever