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...Giscard's trip to Warsaw angers Western allies...
...Giscard: Is spring late in Moscow...
...foreign ministers, and Islamabad welcomed officials from the Islamic Conference states. Austria was celebrating the 25th anniversary of the end of postwar occupation, a glittering occasion that brought East and West together and provided the setting for the Muskie-Gromyko meeting. And this week, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev planned to get together for their very own summit. Said a senior Administration official: "This is the long-awaited Soviet peace offensive - with France as the Trojan horse...
News of the Brezhnev-Giscard parley, to be held in Poland with Polish Communist Leader Edward Gierek as host, surprised and confounded many Western diplomats. West German officials, perhaps piqued because Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had been upstaged by Giscard, regarded the summit as another Soviet at tempt to shatter Western solidarity. On the other hand, French officials maintained that Giscard was only following Charles de Gaulle's policy of trying to mediate between East and West. The focus of the summit was not disclosed in advance, but probable topics included NATO'S plans to deploy medium-range nuclear...
...committees of several European nations. Austria, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, all are voting this week. Saturday is the deadline for a final go, no-go decision. Bonn's move might lead to reversal of go decisions by some others. Maybe even France. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is said to have promised Schmidt that the French would not go to Moscow if the Germans stayed away. Giscard, indeed, could even be trying to play a complex double game: winning Soviet favor by allowing a vote to participate in the Olympics, then reluctantly pressuring the committee...