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Soviet secretiveness over accidents has been a cause of upset in the West, where high standards are observed regarding disclosure of nuclear accidents. In Norway patience is wearing particularly thin. Anger was plainly evident last week when Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg denounced Soviet reluctance to divulge information as "unacceptable...
...four men sat for a while on the State Department's eighth-floor balcony, overlooking beds of red and yellow tulips. But the meeting was a good deal less pleasant than the surroundings. Across from West Germany's Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg sat a grim-faced American duo: Secretary of State James Baker and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. After the four-hour meeting, Baker declared himself "furious" that the Germans had come...
...elimination of all short-range nuclear arms in NATO's forward zones, something the U.S. categorically rejects on the ground that without them, conflicts might break out more easily. The Bonn government is so eager to overcome U.S. opposition to these talks that it has dispatched Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg to Washington to plead Germany's cause. The U.S. would rather Stoltenberg stayed home, since the Administration does not intend to change its mind...
Wall Street and just about everyone else was exhorting Washington last week to get moving on the budget deficit. Declared West Germany's Finance Minister, Gerhard Stoltenberg: "The center is Washington. That's where the difficulties are coming from." In the U.S., a group of more than 150 business leaders, lawyers, educators and former Cabinet members, calling themselves the Bipartisan Budget Appeal, took out a two-page advertisement in the New York Times and the Washington Post to demand spending cuts of at least $30 billion to $40 billion in fiscal 1988. Said the group, which included a range...
...finally have persuaded the Finance Minister to make at least a mild concession on interest rates was the beating that German exporters are taking because of the rise of the mark against the dollar, which makes their products more expensive in the U.S. In an interview last week, Stoltenberg told a West German newspaper, "We now want to cooperate again constructively." One eventual outcome could be a meeting among the finance ministers of the seven major industrial democracies, the so-called G-7 group, to work out a plan to support the dollar at its new, lower level. Indeed, right...