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...Schmidt fails to convince Brezhnev that the U.S. wants serious arms talks...
...conversation in the grand, neoclassic Beethoven dining room of Bonn's 18th century Redoute palace hushed as the ailing, 74-year-old guest rose ponderously from his chair. While his host, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, unceremoniously popped a stick of chewing gum into his mouth, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev began to deliver his first public statement since President Ronald Reagan offered to cancel deployment of new U.S.-built nuclear missiles in Western Europe if the Soviets would dismantle the counterparts in their growing arsenal...
Mitterrand has made several pro-missile pronouncements calculated to shore up Helmut Schmidt. In addition, continuing a policy begun by former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Mitterrand is modernizing France's nuclear forces. Its submarine fleet, which will number seven by 1990, is being equipped with multiple-warhead M-4 missiles, and the 35 Mirage IV strategic bombers will receive new air-to-ground missiles...
...that made the 1979 NATO decision possible by offering its territory to fulfill Chancellor Schmidt's demand that at least one other Continental NATO member volunteer to take the U.S. missiles. "We don't have a problem of neutrality in Italy," explains Piero Bassetti, a leading member of the dominant Christian Democratic Party. "We are a weak nation. We have to stay with the Americans, even when they make mistakes...
...with Moscow. The resulting pact did not cover the SS-20 missiles. To counter these weapons, President Carter proposed stationing a new generation of U.S. intermediate-range missiles in Europe, while proceeding with arms limitation talks. The offer was readily accepted by the Europeans, including West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. That acceptance has come home to roost: it led to the present campaign to remove the very weapons that Europe wanted to help guarantee its safety-and to establish even more firmly the U.S. commitment to fight in Europe...