Word: kohl
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When foreign dignitaries visit Bonn, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl usually greets them like a jolly innkeeper, slapping backs and exchanging jokes. But last week, as Erich Honecker's 18-car motorcade pulled up outside the Chancellery, Kohl could barely contain his distaste for the historic occasion, the first time a top East German leader had set foot in West Germany. After glumly shaking hands with the East German Communist Party chief, he bluntly waved away photographers asking for a replay. Said Kohl: "We've already done...
...after 9 a.m. last Tuesday, just as National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci was leaving Santa Barbara, Calif., to join Ronald Reagan for a trip to Los Angeles. The caller, Horst Teltschik, had news that would please the President. The West German National Security Adviser told Carlucci that Chancellor Helmut Kohl was about to announce plans to retire 72 aging Pershing IA missiles tipped with American nuclear warheads. At a stroke, one of the chief obstacles to a long-awaited Soviet-American agreement on intermediate-range nuclear forces seemed to dissolve, and a Washington summit between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev again...
...softened U.S. stance on inspections. "Taking into account that the U.S. has changed its position on verification," Gerasimov said, "we think that all these problems can be solved by our diplomats in Geneva." He also acknowledged that "the situation has changed for the better after this statement by Chancellor Kohl...
...week. Fifty-two years after he left Neunkirchen, now part of West Germany, and twelve years after he became the bland but politically nimble leader of Communist East Germany, Honecker is scheduled to make a five-day visit to his homeland. His host will be West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and a lot more than nostalgia will be in the air. Postponed earlier as a result of tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the trip will mark the first time an East German party leader has set foot in West Germany, and only the second time since...
...expected to emerge from Honecker's trip. His trip is classified as a "working visit," but Honecker will be accorded most of the trappings normally reserved for grander state visits, including lunch with President Richard von Weizsacker, meetings with leaders of the Bundestag and five hours of talks with Kohl. Bonn quickly acceded to one Honecker request: coffee and cake at the Essen home of Berthold Beitz, chairman of the Krupp steel empire, with whom he has developed a business and hunting friendship over the past seven years. That session will be followed by a reception for Honecker...