Word: kohl
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...NATO summit meeting at which the alliance will be hard pressed to heal the U.S.-West German split over SNF negotiations. Moscow moved swiftly, and with apparent success, to keep the rift open. Shevardnadze used a scheduled trip to Bonn Friday afternoon for meetings with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher to tout the Soviet proposal. He added a touch of salt to the new Soviet sweetness, warning that if the U.S. expands the reach of its short- range launchers as planned, the Soviet reaction might be to develop a new short-range rocket...
...other continental European countries; others, including Norway and Canada, are trying to broker a compromise. But Bush is unmoved. He reaffirmed his position in talks with Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland last week, and again last Friday in a telephone conversation with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl...
...Western Europe argue that both in morale and materiel, Warsaw Pact troops are highly overrated. Nevertheless, the Administration is intent upon upgrading U.S. defenses in Europe by replacing the 75-mile-range Lance with new missiles that could be fired almost four times as far, an idea the Kohl government strenuously opposes...
...President and his advisers say they are annoyed because only a month earlier, Kohl won a grudging U.S. agreement to put off a decision on Lance modernization until after the West German elections in 1990. But the Chancellor's popularity at home has sagged recently, and his center-right coalition is threatened by discontent over widely criticized tax and health reforms. In an almost desperate attempt to regain ground, he has adopted the negotiate-now attitude of the Social Democratic opposition and of his coalition partner, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. When Kohl sent two ministers to Washington to explain...
Every minute counts these days for Shevardnadze, 61, who combines the duties of Foreign Minister with full voting membership on the Communist Party's ruling Politburo. This week Shevardnadze confers with U.S. Secretary of State James Baker in Moscow, then flies to Bonn to meet with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Early next week he heads to Beijing for the long-awaited summit between Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. The swift pace of change during Shevardnadze's almost four-year tenure at Smolensky Square has left foreign diplomats, to say nothing of his weary staff in Moscow, a bit breathless...