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These pressures combined to produce a summit that broke the logjam on Britain's demands. The compromise that was worked out was a diplomatic sleight of hand that saved face for both British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Francois Mitterrand, who had taken personal charge of the effort to end the deadlock. Said a French spokesman: "There are no victors or vanquished." While other difficulties still remain, Mitterrand, the host of the summit, who was wrapping up his six-month term as Community president, was confident enough to proclaim: "The way has been cleared...
Other agreements announced after the summit include a timetable for concluding the entry of Spain and Portugal in 1986, simplified customs procedures, and a general system of equivalence for university diplomas to enable trained specialists to move more freely among the Community's technologically lagging industries. Mitterrand mentioned the possibility of a European space station and even a European flag, passport and anthem. All are part of a program that, in French Finance Minister Jacques Delors's words, "has awakened the sleeping beauty that was Europe...
Support for that notion seemed to come from photos of Sakharov and his wife Yelena Bonner that appeared in the West German tabloid Bild Zeitung on the eve of Mitterrand's visit. The newspaper explained that the pictures had been provided by Victor Louis, an English-speaking Soviet journalist who is widely believed to have KGB connections. One photo purports to show Sakharov strolling through a park in Gorky, the city 250 miles east of Moscow to which he has been exiled, on June 15. "Photos don't prove anything," Sakharov's stepdaughter Tatyana Yankelevich declared after...
...Mitterrand's working session with Chernenko was stiff and formal: the leaders each read from prepared drafts, but there was no give-and-take. Only just before the banquet did the two withdraw for an hourlong private discussion. Mitterrand later described Chernenko, who appeared frail but not perceptibly ill, as an informed, nimble and animated interlocutor, with more autonomy than Mitterrand had previously thought...
Before leaving for Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad, the scene of a decisive Soviet victory against the Germans in 1942), Mitterrand said that the U.S.-Soviet dialogue currently appears to be so chilled that it is "closer to the pole than the equator." A senior Western diplomat expressed a similar view: "We are in for a long haul of this Soviet mood. The Soviets have dug themselves in and they are going to have difficulty digging themselves out." -By Hunter R. Clark. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Jordan Bonfante with Mitterrand...