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...incoming Reagan Administration, is that the U.S. believes there could be such a thing as "victory" in a nuclear war and seeks the capacity to conduct the next war strictly in Europe. (An absurd mirror image of the absurd European hope that if there has to be an East-West war it will consist of salvos between the Soviet and American homelands...
...West Germany's dilemma about its policy toward the Soviet Union. The country is at a watershed. Says Christoph Bertram, director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies: "The Federal Republic is simply much more affected than most other European countries by the state of East-West relations. As it has profited from détente between East and West more than most other Western countries, so it will suffer from a decline or breakdown of détente more than most others...
There was more than good personal chemistry behind the mutual striving for Franco-American entente. Indeed there was a broad range of foreign policy issues on which the Socialist President's views seemed more compatible with Washington's than those of his patrician predecessor. On East-West questions, for example, both Mitterrand and his Foreign Minister have emphatically denounced the Soviet menace in Afghanistan and Poland. In fact, the Socialists have made it clear to Marchais's Communists that they cannot hope to play even a token role in the government without endorsing that condemnation of Moscow's imperialism...
Mitterrand's comments on foreign affairs were obviously designed to project a moderate image. In an interview with New York Times Columnist James Reston, the first Mitterrand has given since his election, he enunciated a world view much like Giscard's and, on the subject of East-West relations, delivered opinions not far removed from Ronald Reagan's. Mitterrand condemned the Soviet Union's deployment of medium-range SS-20 missiles and supported the Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt. At the same time, Mitterrand outlined policies sure to raise hackles in Washington: French support...
...East-West relations were discussed at length by the two leaders. They conferred twice in the Oval Office, with each meeting lasting about an hour. Top aides for both men were present, and Schmidt did most of the talking. (He brought an interpreter, but his English is almost flawless.) Reagan once again assured Schmidt that the U.S. intends to live up to the 1979 NATO agreement that calls for stationing 572 medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe on condition that the U.S. and Soviets begin talks about a mutual, balanced reduction of the number of missiles on the Continent...