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...readiness to use Europe as a battlefield in a limited nuclear war. Said the Frankfurter Rundschau: "There have been hints from the U.S. that war could be limited, even if an inhabited Europe would no longer exist." Defense of American policy by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl gets short shrift. Attacks on the Reagan Administration's commitment to peace by top Social Democrats are reported in full, except for a failure to note that former Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was a principal architect of the missile-deployment plan. Led by Spiegel, the leftist periodicals have depicted...
...only by ideology but also by political party. Papers are just as partisan in news stories as in editorials. In contrast to American newspapers, which may accompany a straight news story with an interpretive sidebar, West German journals often gloss over the news and publish the analysis. The conservative Kohl has powerful allies: the nationally distributed Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (circ. 332,000), probably the country's most influential daily and all but certainly its weightiest; Die Welt (circ. 210,000), the intellectual flagship of Press Lord Axel Springer's chain, and perhaps the most ardently pro-American...
...understandable, resistance in the Administration to the notion that West European political forces should determine American military actions. How far can we let European fears push us? The answer, alas, is quite far indeed when the weapons in question are to be installed on European real estate. Chancellor Helmut Kohl has been admirably stalwart in his support of U.S. arms-control policy and rearmament efforts alike. If some further adjustment of the U.S. negotiating position would help him keep his domestic opposition at bay, then it makes sense to give...
...theory is that Andropov may have indicated to Kohl in Moscow last month that he might be willing to reconsider the Nitze-Kvitsinsky scheme. Officials in Bonn deny that this was the case. They note that when West German officials asked Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov about the plan, he curtly replied: "We do not want to talk about walks in the woods. We want to talk about talks at the table." Still, the Soviet strategy from the beginning has been to appear to West Europeans to be more flexible than the U.S. Soviet Foreign Affairs Specialist Genrikh Trofimenko added...
...gesture that caught all the environmental fervor so characteristic of West Germany's Green Party. Minutes after Helmut Kohl had been elected Chancellor last March, Marieluise Beck-Oberdorf, 31, a new Green deputy, handed him a branch from a fir tree that had been exposed to acid rain. With that impulsive act, Beck-Oberdorf breached her idealistic party's agreement against any individual initiative. For her transgression, she was castigated so harshly by her parliamentary colleagues that she burst into tears...