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...those talks should be a substantial reduction in the number of intercontinental missiles, Reagan urged that the negotiations should be renamed START, for strategic arms reduction talks.* Reagan also called for a cut in conventional forces in Europe and for better communication about planned military maneuvers to enhance East-West stability...
...credit for devising the plan. The most notable claimant was Chancellor Schmidt, who likes to see himself as a useful mediator between the superpowers. Reagan's speech, said Schmidt, "gives me a broad base for the talks" he will have this week with Brezhnev. For once in the East-West war of words, the Soviets will be forced to react to an American peace initiative...
...concord could hardly have come at a more propitious moment. Relations between the U.S. and its European allies have been particularly strained by worries that Reagan's simplistic East-West world view would never translate into a coherent foreign policy. Compounding the problem were conflicting statements from Washington on sensitive nuclear policy issues. Hawkishly, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced that the U.S. would build a neutron warhead; Secretary of State Alexander Haig immediately noted that no decision had been made to deploy it. Reagan mused aloud to a group of newspaper editors at the White House about a possibility...
Last week, only two days before Brezhnev's arrival in Bonn, a West German company signed an agreement with the Soviet Union that cleared the way for the largest East-West trade contract ever concluded: the construction of a $10 billion pipeline to deliver Siberian natural gas to Western Europe. The U.S. had tried, but to no avail, to convince the West Germans that becoming dependent on the Soviets for fuel would make the country too vulnerable to political pressures...
Levin will spend the spring term at the University of Hong Kong helping develop the university's new comparative literature department and working on East-West literature relations...