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...shortage and a spiraling inflation. Alternately glowering and glowing, Kissinger was pictured on TV sets from Glasgow to Miinchen Gladbach as he shook hands with Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Alec Douglas-Home, brushed breakfast crumbs from the lapels of French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert, and pointed a stubby finger at NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns. No poll has been taken, but the U.S. Secretary of State is undoubtedly better known to many Europeans than are their own foreign ministers. Newspapers in Belgium and West Germany summed up the general mood by dubbing him "Henry...
...most heated exchange of the meeting, Foreign Minister Jobert accused the U.S. of undermining European security by signing an Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War with the Soviet Union last June. The French have long argued that if the crunch ever came, the U.S. would never risk the destruction of New York to save Paris-or Manchester, Munich or Milan. Echoing the thoughts of many of his colleagues, Jobert maintained that the U.S.-Soviet pact had brought into question the guarantee of the U.S. nuclear deterrent and, by implication, the Atlantic Alliance itself...
Kissinger argued that the French had misinterpreted the agreement and that not even the Russians expected it to undermine NATO. With a roundabout but nonetheless pointed jab, he added: "If these misinterpretations continue to come up, I would have to come to the conclusion that they are not inadvertent." Jobert, however, had the last word. "We will see," he said with a verbal Gallic shrug...
Despite the clash, perhaps the sharpest open display of acrimony in NATO'S 24-year history, the Brussels meeting did do something-how much is still in question-to restore the dangerously frayed lines of communication across the Atlantic. Jobert and Kissinger, who seem to have a genuine liking for each other outside the conference room, met privately in Kissinger's 16th floor Hilton suite and emerged smiling and joking. "Tout va bien [All goes well]," Jobert told reporters. Indeed, at the weekend summit meeting of Common Market chiefs of state in Copenhagen, Kissinger's visit seemed...
Ever since he was named Foreign Minister of France eight months ago, Michel Jobert, 52, has been likened to Henry Kissinger. The comparison must titillate his highly developed sense of irony. In fact, Jobert and Kissinger, whose clash last week was the highlight of the NATO foreign ministers' meeting, make a study in contrasts that tells much about the uncertain state of U.S.-European relations. Aside from a few parallels in their careers, the two men are as fundamentally opposed in their views of the world as in their working styles...