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...Soviets, Haig said, "It would be hard to call the West guilty of interference. And we have increasingly insisted that others not interfere either." The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was ready to call an emergency meeting of foreign ministers if the situation in Poland warranted. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was described as "very upset" by events, though he stressed that "the news from Poland could have been worse"-meaning Soviet troops were not involved...
...sites that the East Germans chose for the summit meeting between their party chief, Erich Honecker, and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt were awash with symbolism. One was East Germany's Hubertusstock, once the hunting lodge of Prussian kings; the other, a guesthouse at Döllnsee, in a wooded area to the north of East Berlin, now serves as a lakeside retreat for Honecker, the German Democratic Republic's boss since 1971. The guesthouse is also the place where Honecker, as chief of East Germany's internal security apparatus in 1961, received orders to begin construction...
...Schmidt government, in its pursuit of Ostpolitik, is anxious to resume negotiations with East Germany, in the hope of easing ultra-German relations and perhaps achieving a larger measure of detente between East and West. Bonn's long-range concerns have already produced windfalls for the East, which reaps benefits from credits, deutsche marks and other hard currency from the West. Lagging behind West Germany in virtually every aspect of economic life, East Germany has vastly gained from interest-free credits extended by Bonn. These credits, amounting to $383 million annually, made possible last year an 18.7% rise...
Another important issue concerned the proposed natural gas pipeline that will stretch some 3,000 miles from Siberia through East Germany to Western Europe. The West Germans would like to see Honecker approve the pipeline agreement, which was discussed last month by Schmidt and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. Since West Berlin will receive natural gas under the terms of the agreement,the West Germans hope that Honecker's approval of the plan may augur well for future discussion of matters involving West Berlin-a subject that East Germany has often regarded as verboten...
...Soviet action was evidently prompted by pressure from abroad. The Kremlin leaders had become increasingly alarmed about the Soviet image in the West as pro-Sakharov demonstrations erupted in European capitals, and world statesmen, including Pope John Paul II, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and President Reagan, expressed their concern. The Soviets have always held back from taking extreme measures against Sakharov because of his international celebrity as the much decorated nuclear physicist who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb. He later went on to gain greater fame as the champion of human rights in the U.S.S.R. and the winner...