Word: genscher
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...West German Chancellor, were Reagan's staunchest allies; then-support for deployment was rock solid. But they both faced elections, and they needed a new, more flexible-looking U.S. proposal to help outflank their political opponents and quiet their domestic constituencies. Kohl's Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and Thatcher both asked the U.S. to adopt an "interim solution," in which the Soviets would be allowed to keep a reduced force of SS-20s, while the U.S. would scale back its own deployment accordingly...
Last weekend Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko flew to Vienna to meet with his West German counterpart, Hans-Dietrich Genscher. There were reports that Gromyko asked Genscher to help arrange a summit between the superpowers to help avert a crisis over the missile deployment. The latest Soviet moves appeared to signal an increased willingness in Moscow to push its war of nerves with Washington over the missiles to the crisis point. Said a West European diplomat: "The Soviets are trying to scare the hell out of everyone...
...when NATO is scheduled to deploy American Pershing II and cruise missiles, seems very unlikely. Last week Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Kornienko and Deputy Chief of Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev had a press conference in Moscow to put down reports emanating from West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher that the U.S.S.R. might become more flexible in its INF stance. "Such conclusions are wishful thinking," said Kornienko. Nor does there seem much hope of progress on limiting the number of intercontinental missiles at the START negotiations...
...that U.S. Negotiator Paul Nitze and his Soviet counterpart Yuli Kvitsinsky worked out during a stroll in the Jura Mountains above Geneva last summer. The walk-in-the-woods proposal, as it came to be called, was disavowed by Washington and Moscow. But West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher seemed to resurrect it last month when he told a reporter during a visit to Bulgaria that "the closer we come to the resumption of talks between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after the summer recess, it will be all the more useful to think along the lines...
...While Kohl vacationed in Austria, a government spokesman emphasized that the Chancellor and the U.S. were "in complete agreement that NATO'S decision would have to be followed and that, failing a solution in Geneva, both missile systems would have to be deployed." After visiting Kohl in Austria, Genscher appeared on television to say that "the question of the weapons mix has played a greater role in the past few days than it in truth deserves." The Foreign Minister explained that the walk-in-the-woods plan showed that it was possible to come up with an agreement that...