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...summits, Reagan will hold bilateral discussions with the leaders of his host countries. His reception in all four capitals should be cordial. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will surely express her gratitude that Washington has come down firmly on Britain's side in the war with Argentina. Mitterrand will restate his support for NATO's plan to modernize its nuclear forces. His enthusiasm has pleased the Reagan Administration, which initially had been wary of the Socialist President. West German Chancellor Schmidt finds himself more sympathetic to the Reagan Administration now that it has suspended its efforts to block...
Homer said of Odysseus: "He saw the cities of many men and knew their manners." Reagan's pilgrimage to modern cities of other men will help him better understand European attitudes. "I have never found him closed to talking about any given question," Mitterrand said last week of Reagan. The allies hope that he will return home with a better appreciation of the need to frame economic and strategic policies with greater attention to their effects on America's Atlantic partners...
...attendance will be government leaders from the U.S., Britain, Canada, West Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Iceland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Spain. Since France's formal withdrawal from NATO'S military command in 1966, its President does not attend summit meetings. Mitterrand, however, will be at the opening dinner. Premier Pierre Mauroy will represent France at the summit...
...launch a counterinvasion of the Falklands, her partners in the European Community last week gave Britain first a diplomatic slap and then subjected it to a humiliation that shook the ten-nation Community to its institutional roots. The crux of the problem, as French President François Mitterrand put it, was not just "what role Great Britain intends to play" in the Community, but "the question of the presence or the nature of the presence of Great Britain in the Community...
...bicycle ride, Carter spoke of his concerns about the country. After the book is finished, he said, he intends to speak out more. Two weeks ago, he and Rosalynn left Plains for a vacation trip to Scandinavia, and on the way back he visited French President François Mitterrand. Carter has been strangely polite in his criticism of Reagan, despite the fact that the President, as Carter knows, holds him in contempt. For some months, Carter was denied even the minimal daily briefing reports that are provided to a hundred or so top officials in the Government. He endured...