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...most likely prospect is that the Europeans will try to get the U.S. to make a counteroffer to the Soviet proposals. Some idea of what that might be comes from West Germany. The government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl has some special anxieties. At present Soviet intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles can hit almost any country in Western Europe. If they are removed, the Soviets would be left with swarms of short-range missiles that for the most part are aimed at only one NATO country: West Germany. Thus the Germans fear that they will become more than ever...
Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt gave a landmark speech in London ten years ago, raising the alarm over the SS-20 and calling on the U.S. to redress the imbalance. American officials and experts were at first reluctant, in part because they feared that whatever Schmidt wanted, many in West Germany and elsewhere would protest the deployments and blame the U.S. for escalating the arms race...
...could ever accuse West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl of being unduly sympathetic toward Moscow, but as he began his second term last week, Kohl softened his stand. Speaking before the Bundestag, he noted that Gorbachev "speaks of a 'new way of thinking' in the Soviet Union" and added, "We take him at his word." Kohl also vowed to urge the superpowers to agree to the withdrawal of intermediate-range nuclear missiles from Europe...
Christian Social Union party leader Franz Strauss, an ally of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, claimed that Germans should no longer hold themselves accountable for what he considers to be just an instant in the long existence of Germany. Strauss put his case before the German people in the general elections three weeks...
...Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the hostage crisis could hardly have come at a worse time. In the closing days of a re-election drive that he was expected to win handily, Kohl was forced to spend much of his time directing the behind- the-scenes effort to free the hostages. Bonn's strategy: to negotiate the release of the German hostages with the help of Middle East governments linked to Hizballah, including Iran and Syria. The Chancellor carefully consulted leaders of the opposition Social Democratic Party, the major challenger to his center-right coalition. SDP Candidate Johannes Rau declared that...