Word: nato
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...anniversary, Kohl saw a chance to regain lost prestige. He thought some expression of the new bonds between his country and the U.S. would be in order 40 years after the wartime enmity. At the State Department, top officials viewed the occasion as a way to solidify the NATO alliance. The primary aim of the American diplomats, said one, was "to keep Germany happy...
Despite the strains imposed on old friendships by the cemetery fiasco, broader common interests would surely prevent lasting ruptures. West Germany and the U.S. are staunch NATO allies and major trading partners. More personally, few Jews see Reagan as harboring any traces of anti-Semitism. His credentials as a champion of Israel remain unchallenged. Even his most effective critic, Elie Wiesel, spoke more in sorrow than in anger. It was obvious there was a concern for humanity in what the President was striving to achieve, no matter how awkwardly he went about it. What disturbed Reagan's friends and critics...
...summit partners may also repeat their reservations about the Reagan Administration's $26 billion research program for the Strategic Defense Initiative (S.D.I.), known as Star Wars. In the allies' view, the drive for S.D.I. could jeopardize U.S.-Soviet arms-reduction talks in Geneva and undermine NATO's reliance on nuclear deterrence as the basis of alliance security. A U.S. invitation to the 15 other NATO members, as well as to Japan, Australia and Israel, to participate in the research scheme seems unlikely to remove those doubts, even if they do not prove to be well founded...
...during his ten-day visit, Reagan will surely have kind words to say about the West European allies' resolve in deploying the new Euromissiles. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have all accepted the NATO weapons on their soil, despite heavy pressure from the peace movement. Allied solidarity has been further strengthened by the near unanimous Western rejection of Gorbachev's recent offer to "freeze" the missile balance in Europe at current levels, which greatly favor the Soviet Union...
...November 1989 than the U.S. launched the first of its numerous post--cold war wars by invading Panama in December. John Paul II denounced that invasion, a position he would repeat every time the U.S. sent bombers and troops abroad. The Vatican opposed the Gulf War in 1991, the NATO air war against Serbia, the U.S. campaign against Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq in 2003--the entire spirit of "Crusade" that animates the war on terrorism. The Roman Catholic Church under John Paul II made its opposition to war as clear as a bell, even if in Washington this aspect...