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...session was not without tensions. Chain-smoking throughout the meeting, Schmidt appeared on the defensive. He claimed that the American press had misrepresented the West German view of the Soviet role in the Polish crackdown, and noted that a letter he had sent to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev last month was proof that Bonn believed in Moscow's involvement. "If one read only American newspapers," he told Reagan, "you would think the U.S.-German alliance was dead." But Schmidt also made clear that he did not think the sanctions against Moscow would work, and thus he did not plan...
...roundly denounced by Candidate Reagan. At the time, Reagan insisted that registration saved only a few days in mobilizing draftees in case of war. But last week he said that new studies had shown registration could shave off as much as six weeks. Though officials denied that the Polish situation figured in Reagan's decision, White House advisers privately conceded that it would have been the wrong time to revoke draft registration, lest misleading signals be sent to Moscow and the allies...
Despite the show of support by Schmidt and the ministers of the European Community, the allies still had ample complaints and questions about the conduct and direction of U.S. foreign policy in the Polish crisis. The most common protest was that Washington once again had failed to consult with the allies on sanctions, and then had insisted that Europe come up with a strong response too. As one West German diplomat summed up his view of Washington's attitude: " 'We'll tell you what we are going to do, we do it, and we expect...
Some European officials are openly concerned about the quality of advice that Reagan receives from the men around him. They fear that the President's most hawkish advisers, notably Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and White House Counsellor Edwin Meese, may look upon the Polish crisis as a chance to loosen the Soviet grasp on Eastern Europe. Such a policy, in turn, might force Moscow to crack down even harder. Others claim to hear too many voices coming from the Administration. Says a peeved British diplomat: "No sooner does one U.S. official announce an attitude than within 24 hours another...
President Reagan looked favorably on Taiwan's request last spring to buy a new generation of advanced American fighter jets, despite warnings from the State Department that such a sale would threaten the delicate normalization of relations with China. As a result of the Polish crisis, however, the U.S. is sending a top-level delegation to Peking. TIME has learned that its mission is to inform the Chinese that the U.S. has decided to refrain from selling Taiwan any fighter jets more advanced or sophisticated than the F-5Es it currently has. At the same time, the U.S. will...