Word: genscher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weizsäcker just two seats short of a legislative majority, and he spent much of last week looking for a coalition partner. The Alternativen quickly refused, as did the S.P.D. That left the Free Democrats, who seemed reluctantly open to the idea. Explained Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the party leader: "Part of our national responsibility is to ensure stable government in Berlin...
...unified Alliance get-tough policy made credible by defense spending. The day before he left Washington, Haig won Reagan's agreement, despite resistance from some hardliners. Soon after he arrived in Rome he met with the key advocate of renewed arms control, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and displayed a five-page handwritten letter from Reagan to Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev. In it Reagan communicated his horror of war, his hopes for peace and his willingness this year to move a step toward resuming SALT by negotiating controls of European continental-range missiles. Haig later mentioned...
...dangerous foreign adventurism. Reuters simplified this by quoting him as saying that Soviet leaders would have to choose between changing their Communist system in the direction followed by the West or "going to war." Pipes also was reported to have expressed concerns about West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher's upcoming trip to Moscow...
...Administration quickly labeled the comments as "not authorized," and Haig sent a note to Genscher assuring him that he was "outraged" at any implication that the West German was susceptible to Soviet pressure. The fact is, however, that Pipes' views coincide with those of the Administration in most respects. He headed the 1976 "Team B" task force to assess Soviet strategy, which argued that Soviet leaders are pursuing a course of nuclear superiority. The Administration's many voices are all reinforcing the same tough anti-Soviet line...
...Genscher arranged for two days of meetings between Christopher and Tabatabai in an official guesthouse on the outskirts of Bonn on Sept. 18 and 19. Christopher presented the quick and clean solution, and the Iranian seemed open to the idea. Recalls one U.S. participant in the talks: "He was obviously interested. We thought we were very close to getting something done. At last we had a conduit to Khomeini." But the possible breakthrough was soon smashed. Iraq invaded Iran, and the leadership in Iran turned its attention away from the hostages. The American diplomats switched to the other alternative...