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...attack in Parliament on the Bitburg visit by noting that "I have considerable sympathy with what the honorable gentleman said." In Paris, the French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Catherine Lalumiere, said her government "shares the emotion" unleashed by the cemetery imbroglio. Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called Reagan's determination to proceed "a most unfavorable situation...
Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany, the summit host, and Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher of Britain, Brian Mulroney of Canada, Bettino Craxi of Italy and Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan were willing to accommodate Reagan. But Mitterrand, who appeared to relish playing France's traditional role of odd man out at economic summits, adamantly refused to set an early--or any--date for trade negotiations. He voiced varied objections: that the talks had to be carefully prepared; that they ought to be linked to a monetary-reform conference, about which the U.S. is dubious; most of all, that trade talks might...
...made clear it would not seek any endorsement. But the subject dominated Reagan's bilateral talks with the other leaders. The President stressed the potential advantage to other countries of participating in the research for the missile-defense program, which he said could have important nonmilitary applications. Canada's Mulroney and Japan's Nakasone were politely noncommittal; others were interested, but in some cases skeptical, about just what contributions the U.S. wanted. Said Italy's Craxi: "We don't want to make just the carpets and - the screws for the spaceships." Kohl gave SDI a personal endorsement; though the British...
...main business Friday night and Saturday, however, was the futile effort to persuade Mitterrand to accept a trade conference in early 1986. Canada's Mulroney drafted a set of proposals for what such a conference would discuss; it was intended to assure the French President that agriculture would not dominate the talks. The sherpas, meeting all night, worked out five or six formulations to the same effect. Mitterrand agreed to communique language that made no mention of any link between trade and monetary conferences, but nothing could get him to set a date for the trade discussions. The French President...
...lead in technology, they would have much to contribute, while the Norwegians said they would prefer to devote their limited resources to conventional defense. In the Pacific, Australia turned down the offer, and Japan said delicately that the plan would be "carefully studied." Canada's Prime Minister Brian Mulroney described his enthusiasm for the idea as "restrained." Though some of the doubts may fade by the time the U.S. spells out exactly what it is talking about, the initial reactions were less than enthusiastic...