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...Paris. Kohl was not invited to participate, since this was seen as a celebration of the wartime victory over the Germans rather than a time for the victor to join hands with the vanquished. Kohl was miffed, and his resentment lingered. When it turned out that the economic summit would bring Reagan to Bonn shortly before May 8, the V-E day anniversary, Kohl saw a chance to regain lost prestige. He thought some expression of the new bonds between his country and the U.S. would be in order 40 years after the wartime enmity. At the State Department...
Some of Western Europe's concerns will be on display for Ronald Reagan at the main diplomatic event of his controversial European visit, the annual economic summit meeting of seven leading industrial powers--the U.S., Britain, France, Italy, West Germany, Canada and Japan--that will take place in Bonn from May 2 to May 4. At the top of the summit agenda, along with problems of international trade, will be unhappiness over U.S. budget deficits, high interest rates and the uncertainties that the dollar is creating in European money markets...
...summit partners may also repeat their reservations about the Reagan Administration's $26 billion research program for the Strategic Defense Initiative (S.D.I.), known as Star Wars. In the allies' view, the drive for S.D.I. could jeopardize U.S.-Soviet arms-reduction talks in Geneva and undermine NATO's reliance on nuclear deterrence as the basis of alliance security. A U.S. invitation to the 15 other NATO members, as well as to Japan, Australia and Israel, to participate in the research scheme seems unlikely to remove those doubts, even if they do not prove to be well founded...
Israeli Cabinet Member Ezer Weizman returned from a three-day trip to Cairo last week with a nasty row at home behind him and a handsome trophy before him: a tentative Egyptian commitment for a summit meeting later this spring between Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. That diplomatic breakthrough could signal the end of three years of "cold peace" between the two countries. Egypt opposed the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, and following the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut three months later, recalled its ambassador from...
...feelings of Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the Likud bloc and the next Prime Minister under the Labor-Likud coalition agreement, Peres described the Weizman mission as a "private visit." That was agreeable to Shamir until word got out that Weizman was hoping to discuss a possible summit meeting. In a talk with Likud activists, Shamir declared that Weizman, a member of the small Yahad Party, had decided that "he has been crowned Israel's messiah of peace." Replied Weizman the next day: "I suggest that we not go too deeply into heavenly terminology. Better a messiah of peace...