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...Soviet search for an enduring solution to the Germany question is also evident in the Soviet proposals to the Vienna talks on the reduction of conventional forces in Central Europe Every Soviet proposal at the Vienna talks from the opening of the negotiations in 1973 to the Warsaw Pact proposal of February, 1983 has sought to establish a 1:1 ratio between Soviet and West German military personnel in central Europe...
Israel also wants to sign agreements on trade and on the movement of people across the common border. The Lebanese prefer not to spell out these issues for fear of an Arab boycott. Even if these conflicts were settled, the pact itself would be a problem: the Israelis insist that the agreement be signed by the foreign ministers of the two countries, while the Lebanese, afraid of creating the impression that they are signing a peace treaty and thus recognizing Israel, want lower-ranking officials to approve the treaty. Said Lebanese Foreign Minister Elie Salem: "Lebanon cannot be exposed...
...trip to Britain to propose a treaty and that he let the British escape at Dunkirk in hopes of persuading them to make a separate peace. Both claims have been forcefully challenged by historians, who noted that on the very day that Hess arrived to propose a German-British pact, Hitler's Luftwaffe planes bombed London's Houses of Parliament. The revisionist versions in the diaries coincide with the Soviet version of World War II: an untrustworthy Britain, more at ease with fascism than with Communism, primed to betray its alliance with Stalin. On Saturday, however, the Soviet...
...look askance at the volume and substance of East-West trade. A focus for that critical view is the NATO alliance's Coordinating Committee on Export Controls, or COCOM, a body created in 1950 to monitor and restrict the flow of strategic Western industrial goods to the Warsaw Pact nations. It is virtually powerless today. Complains a senior Reagan Administration official: "COCOM is nothing but a junior Italian official and ten clerks...
...pact contained a wage freeze, reduction in bonus time paid for perfect attendance, and a profit-sharing plan and employee stock ownership option...