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...Administration's strident saber-rattling against the Soviet Union. The Chancellor has become increasingly critical of Soviet expansionism in the past year. At the same time he fears that the U.S. is not trying hard enough to open a dialogue with the Soviets and thus defuse East-West tensions. "Schmidt wants to be assured that our policy toward the Soviet Union is more than one of simple hostility," said a senior U.S. diplomat...
...East-West trade should be integrated into a comprehensive Soviet policy, and economic ties linked to the overall state of relations between the two powers, says the commission. Attempts to use trade as an incentive for restrained political conduct will require much closer cooperation among the Western allies than has yet been forged. "Uniformity is not required," the commission notes, but "differences should not be allowed to grow to a point where the Soviet leaders will conclude that siren songs of peace, or conversely, pressures and threats, can succeed in splitting the allies...
...Soviet Union but between the White House and Secretary of State Alexander Haig. "He comes home in triumph," President Reagan told reporters, as Haig returned from a NATO foreign ministers' meeting that had endorsed the American hard line blaming Soviet militarism for the breakdown of East-West relations. After two months of squabbling between Haig and the President's top aides, the Secretary had stopped trying to assert his prerogatives and had started pledging to be a team player. Reagan's enthusiastic welcome home, accompanied by a pointedly symbolic "photo opportunity" of the two men posing...
...Secretary also advocated a policy of "linkage" involving all East-West relations, urged common policy outside the NATO area (for example, in the Persian Gulf), and emphasized the Administration's two selling points with the Third World: ties with the Soviets bring too close an embrace, alliance with the West can produce economic improvement...
Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaragua's Minister of Culture, told a K-School audience Saturday night that the Reagan administration's foreign policy makers have forgotten the lessons of Vietnam and view "complex problems of today's world in terms of East-West conflict...