Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West affairs, pointing out that as Senator and Vice President he had three discussions with Gromyko. The Soviet Foreign Minister, who in all probability viewed his meeting with Mondale mainly as a courtesy gesture, was unlikely to offer anything not already passed on to Shultz. By mutual consent, no communiqué describing either the tone or the content of the meeting was planned...
...West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at a health spa hotel. They had even decided that the Wiebelskirchen musical corps would serenade the East German leader at his birthplace in the Saarland. With the visit less than a month away, they had come to discuss the wording of the final communiqué that both German leaders would issue at the end of the trip...
Thatcher read the 17-point economic communiqué on Saturday at the City of London's 600-year-old Guildhall. Acknowledging that the West's economies were recovering, the document called for measures that would both create new jobs and spread the benefits of growth. It noted with concern "the growing strain of public expenditure in all our countries," a favorite Reagan and Thatcher theme, but also stressed the need for job creation and training programs. In an oblique criticism of U.S. policy, the communiqué said that high interest rates were making it more difficult for heavily...
...dinner at London's St. James's Palace, an octagonal-turreted brick structure built for King Henry VIII. Seated in the Armoury, a second-story room lined with muskets, swords, pikes and other antique weaponry, the summiteers listened as Thatcher broached her notion of the political communiqué on democratic values. Thatcher felt strongly about the idea. "The Brits are treating this like it's the Magna Carta," said a U.S. official...
...serious treatment of the debt problem without a lowering of real interest rates." That in turn paved the way for discussion of the U.S. budget deficit. Later, U.S. Treasury Secretary Regan refused to acknowledge a link between the deficit and high interest rates. The outcome in the communiqué was a declaration that high interest rates could threaten recovery, and a call for "prudent monetary and budgetary policies...