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...European Community foreign ministers, and Islamabad welcomed officials from the Islamic Conference states. Austria was celebrating the 25th anniversary of the end of postwar occupation, a glittering occasion that brought East and West together and provided the setting for the Muskie-Gromyko meeting. And this week, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev planned to get together for their very own summit. Said a senior Administration official: "This is the long-awaited Soviet peace offensive - with France as the Trojan horse...
...will sway the committees of several European nations. Austria, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, all are voting this week. Saturday is the deadline for a final go, no-go decision. Bonn's move might lead to reversal of go decisions by some others. Maybe even France. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is said to have promised Schmidt that the French would not go to Moscow if the Germans stayed away. Giscard, indeed, could even be trying to play a complex double game: winning Soviet favor by allowing a vote to participate in the Olympics, then reluctantly...
...women were surprisingly successful in gaining admittance to high officials-so successful, in fact, that they were assumed to have had secret Administration help. But they insisted that they had made all their appointments on their own. Their first stop was the Elysée Palace, where French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing kept a delegation of mayors waiting for almost an hour while he talked with the women and offered them "the profound sympathy and solidarity of France." According to the leader of the group, Louisa Kennedy of Washington, D.C., wife of the economic and commercial...
...first visit to a Western capital since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and, even before the U.S. misadventure in Iran, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was not at all in a conciliatory mood. Flying into Paris for two days of talks with French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Gromyko brushed aside the European Community's standing proposal for the neutralization of Afghanistan. He spurned a specific French request to spell out a timetable for Soviet withdrawal. Overall, he made it bluntly clear that Moscow does not consider its continued occupation to be any of Western Europe...
...strains persist between Thatcher and her European counterparts, particularly French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. A little more subtlety might have served her better, but subtlety is not a Thatcher trait. "She recognizes that she is not one of nature's negotiators," says an adviser. Her forte is the daring act. After Lord Mountbatten's assassination last August, for example, she rejected the advice of some cautious Cabinet ministers and visited British troops in the heart of I.R.A. terrorist country in Northern Ireland. Pictures of a windblown Maggie in an oversized flak jacket were visual...