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...what he does and says in the months to come, Bush hopes to help Mikhail Gorbachev fend off the charge that he "lost Germany." At the same time, the U.S. President is doing everything he can to bolster Helmut Kohl for the West German elections in December. Kohl's coalition is committed to staying in NATO. Some of his Social Democratic opponents have talked about saying thanks and goodbye to foreign troops and perhaps even embracing neutrality. The Bush Administration believes a NATO without Germany would quickly lead to a Europe without NATO, and then . . . well, anything could happen...
...year. The Administration's warning is deliberately vague. It invites listeners to fill in the blank with their own worst fears. The American manifesto for the '90s is that a specter is haunting Europe, the specter of "unpredictability" and "instability." Those were the words that Bush used, standing beside Kohl at Camp David last month, to identify the enemy that has taken the place of Soviet expansionism...
Only three other senators--Herbert Kohl (D-Wis.), David L. Boren (D-Okla.) and Robert Packwood (R-Ore.)--have chosen to forsake PAC money completely, said Common Cause lobbyist Randy Huwa...
Admittedly, the payback is yet to come; Kohl's chauvinistic propensity to go it alone has continued unabated. But by publicly ignoring the Chancellor's diplomatic free-lancing, Bush and Baker hope for greater influence down the road. Throwing America's weight around, they reason, could only make the transition to a Europe inevitably dominated by a united Germany even more difficult to manage. In another time, a similar posture was called appeasement. So far, at least, the Bush-Baker policy can be viewed as smart politics, as another effort -- to borrow Baker's words -- toward trying to get allies...
...maneuvering if he didn't have the cushion of an approval rating hovering around 80%? If the economy were on the skids and his popularity at 40%, would he revert to the tough-guy rhetoric that characterized his presidential campaign? Would he have resisted reading the riot act to Kohl? Would he risk alienating America's powerful Jewish lobby by playing hardball with Shamir? No doubt Bush will have tough moments somewhere along the line -- and then we will have an answer...