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...Disputes over East-West relations have provoked a divisive crisis within the Western alliance. Washington's attempt to impose sanctions on firms supplying equipment for the natural gas pipeline the Soviets are building from Siberia to Western Europe threatened to spoil Shultz's dinner with French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. "Obviously they were not going to sort it out over pate," said one U.S. official. So Shultz shifted the discussions to the broader terrain of East-West economic relations and sounded out Cheysson on what Western strategy ought to be. Said a Shultz aide: "He is taking...
...best glimpse of Shultz's operating style has come during the contretemps over the Administration's attempt to force allies to abide by the U.S. embargo on equipment for the Soviet natural-gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe. A former Secretary of the Treasury, Shultz has always been leery of the use of economic sanctions. He personally doubted that the embargo would be effective, but nonetheless has acted as a team player. He began by holding a number of wide-ranging discussions with a brain trust of advisers around his small, rectangular conference table. Said one official...
...likened the feud to a "progressive divorce," also tried to restore a modicum of household harmony. Said he: "In every good marriage, at times one talks about a divorce." After the transatlantic clash provoked by Washington's embargo on technology for the Soviet gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe, both the U.S. and its allies assessed the damage, found it considerable and decided to downplay the disagreement...
...simultaneously trying to soften the impact of a wholly different foreign policy venture that had all the earmarks of failure. At issue: Ronald Reagan's on-again, off-again attempt to block construction of the $10 billion, 3,500-mile pipeline that will carry Soviet natural gas from Siberia to energy-hungry Western Europe. Washington's opposition to the pipeline, which the allies regard as essential to their economies, has opened a rift that threatens to undermine the solidarity of NATO. Thus, less than two weeks after Reagan defined the U.S. stance as "a matter of principle...
They unanimously rejected Reagan's policy of trade sanctions against the Soviet Union that are aimed at halting or delaying construction of a pipeline that will deliver natural gas from Siberia to Western Europe. Said Giersch: "Contracts must be fulfilled. I dislike any politicization of commerce, because once you start, you will end up with a kind of trade war for one cause or another. You also unleash protectionist pressures inside your own country...