Word: genscher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schmidt cordially received Vance at his Rhineside residence and termed their meeting "extraordinarily useful," but obvious U.S.-West German differences remained. While Vance stressed at a press conference that the Soviets "must pay the cost flowing from the blatant invasion of a neighboring country," Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher took a very different tack. Said he: "We must do everything we can to avoid escalation, make a political solution of the problem possible, and pursue détente...