Word: genscher
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...Soviet fury. While discussing nuclear arms with Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti in April, So viet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko made a pointed allusion to the Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79. After West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher's visit a month later, the Soviet press published reports that West Germany's soldiers resemble a "Hitlerite army" and that the government was plotting to take over East Germany. China, which Moscow has every reason to entice away from the U.S., received a pointed snub in May with...
...Gromyko told visiting West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher last month that arms-control talks with the U.S. could not resume unless the U.S. removed its missiles from Germany and Britain...
Gromyko told visiting West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher last month that arms-control talks with the U.S. could not resume unless the U.S. removed its missiles from Germany and Britain...
...Washington, they are not interested in reaching agreement. They only speculate in general terms about the usefulness of dialogue." That note of scorn in Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko's remarks to West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher last week was characteristic of Moscow's increasingly hostile posture toward the West. The Kremlin categorically rejected Genscher's plea for a resumption of the Geneva arms-reduction talks that the Soviets broke off last November to protest NATO's deployment of new missiles in Europe. Only a few hours before Genscher's arrival, the Soviet news...
...summer, however, that was not good enough for the West Germans. They were looking for more than demonstrations of good will and flexibility in Washington. They wanted an agreement in Geneva. The opposition Social Democrats urged resurrecting the walk-in-the-woods scheme. Genscher and Kohl hinted that they too thought the plan was worth one last...