Word: genscher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warm, so the four men sat for a while on the State Department's eighth-floor balcony, overlooking beds of red and yellow tulips. But the meeting was a good deal less pleasant than the surroundings. Across from West Germany's Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg sat a grim-faced American duo: Secretary of State James Baker and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. After the four-hour meeting, Baker declared himself "furious" that the Germans had come...
...nasty falling-out between normally amicable allies was the result of renewed German demands that the U.S. open talks with the Soviet Union on reducing Europe's short-range nuclear weapons, nearly all of which are deployed on West German soil. At one point, Genscher complained that his country would bear the brunt of a Soviet attack. An exasperated Cheney interrupted Genscher: "Look, if the flag goes up, we're all going to be obliterated, so we don't need to hear any of that...
...next day, Genscher persuaded Kohl to renege on the agreement, mainly as a desperate ploy to win domestic political points. In London an angry Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared that "anything to undermine NATO will be damaging to the defense of liberty." The West Germans, though, have support from other NATO members, and diplomats suggested the likelihood of a compromise before the alliance's summit meeting in May. But NATO cannot discount the dominating figure of Mikhail Gorbachev. In the minds of many Europeans -- if not in fact -- Gorbachev has removed the Soviet threat with seductive arms initiatives, particularly...
...have no answer," the official told reporters as Baker flew back to West Germany for talks with Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher...
...last week's Paris conference, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz met with his West German counterpart, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and offered to provide a panel of West German officials with a full intelligence briefing in Washington. Perhaps seizing on that proposal as a diplomatic way to take a new tack, Genscher agreed not only to send such a delegation but also to tighten West Germany's notoriously loose regulations governing the export of potentially dangerous products, including chemicals. Two days later Bonn announced plans to increase the number of customer nations whose purchases are monitored and to impose more...