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...that will allow 30,000 more American troops than Soviet ones to be stationed in Europe was announced last week in what has become standard fashion in the fast-moving Gorbachev era: a casual aside. During a discussion about German unification in Ottawa, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze interrupted himself, looked across the table at U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and said, "Oh, by the way." Shevardnadze then proceeded to report that Moscow had approved George Bush's plan that would permit the two superpowers to maintain 195,000 troops each in Europe's central zone...
None of Germany's neighbors have been cheering the prospect of its rebirth as the largest European state and economy west of the U.S.S.R. The Soviets, with their carefully nurtured memories of World War II, have been the most negative of all. Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has referred to "the revival of sinister shadows of the past" and said the world needs guarantees that the danger of war will never again arise in Germany. The Soviet Union's own borders will have to be firmly secured, Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev insisted last week, reflecting Soviet irritation at Kohl for refusing...
Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze took an even bolder line, urging the plenum to understand the Lithuanian moves "in the context of European and world affairs." Said he: "I am resolutely against any sanctions." That was certainly not the view of Ligachev and other party veterans. They pushed for a change of wording that would "condemn the actions of the incumbent leadership of the Lithuanian party, aimed at splitting and weakening the unity of the Communist Party and the Soviet federation." A compromise was fashioned, incorporating the criticisms of the Ligachev camp and Lithuanian party loyalists...
...U.S.S.R. as a matter of minor consequence. The Soviets seemed so distracted -- understandably so -- that even as Secretary of State James Baker flew into Moscow to prepare for the June superpower summit, he was uncertain whether his schedule would hold up. His engagement with Soviet counterpart Eduard Shevardnadze had already been rebooked twice. Then an apologetic Shevardnadze was forced to push their first appointment back an hour and had to duck out of the historic party conference to keep his date...
...sharply, in fact, that within three days the Kremlin began to hem and haw. Apparently concerned that Gorbachev's words might be interpreted as an explicit push for a single German state, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze told Soviet reporters that "it is not the idea of German unity itself but the revival of sinister shadows of the past" that raises alarm. He proposed that some way be found for the citizens of the Soviet Union, Europe, the U.S. and Canada to express their opinions on unification...