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When the outcome of the Bundestag vote was announced, government deputies gave Chancellor Kohl a standing ovation. Social Democrats and the Greens, by contrast, sat in dejected silence. "For me, this is a black day," said Egon Bahr, the SPD disarmament spokesman. "But this is still the beginning...
British Prime Minister Thatcher and Helmut Kohl, who had replaced Schmidt in October 1982 as West German Chancellor, were Reagan's staunchest allies; then-support for deployment was rock solid. But they both faced elections, and they needed a new, more flexible-looking U.S. proposal to help outflank their political opponents and quiet their domestic constituencies. Kohl's Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and Thatcher both asked the U.S. to adopt an "interim solution," in which the Soviets would be allowed to keep a reduced force of SS-20s, while the U.S. would scale back its own deployment...
...hinted that other approaches were negotiable. In a speech to the American Legion in February, which was drafted largely by the State Department and bitterly opposed by the Pentagon, Reagan outlined the criteria for an agreement other than the zero option. But not until March 30, after Kohl had resoundingly won the elections in West Germany, did Reagan formally embrace the State Department's interim
...neutralism is very fashionable in the now dominant wing of the party led by former Chancellor Willy Brandt and the SPD can indulge in irresponsibility while in opposition, but economic recovery may not come soon to West Germany, thus opening the way for a return to power, if Helmut Kohl's center right coalition cannot persist. While the socialists of Italy and France repeat the lessons of deterrence, the social Democrats of northern and Protestant Europe will be entranced with nuclear free schemes, "dissolving the blocs," and moving away from that "primitive anticommunist" of the bellicose Americans...
...arrival of the first cruise launchers was symbolic of the West European effort to keep the two issues separate. Although the West German government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl maintained its formal opposition to the invasion, Kohl last week expressed "understanding" for the U.S. move. West German Government Spokesman Jürgen Sudhoff explained that "additional elements," such as the discovery of armed Cuban construction workers and the Grenadian Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon's plea for help, had cast new light on the events...