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West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, disapproving of the raid, warned that it might provoke outbursts of "primitive anti-Americanism." Indeed, demonstrators marched and shouted Saturday in Rome, West Berlin and even London, where Prime Minister Thatcher came under scathing attack from critics who accused her of exposing her countrymen to terrorist vengeance...
Gorbachev's suggestions that troop levels and conventional weapons be reduced have already met with a positive response in West Germany, where Chancellor Helmut Kohl yesterday described the proposals as a "step forward...
...first some West German officials, like other U.S. allies, believed the evidence to be indicative rather than conclusive. By week's end Chancellor Helmut Kohl declared at a press conference that "the attack also had a Libyan background." But he took care to add, "Please note that I said 'also,' and not 'only.' " German intelligence officials explained that they had been shown what seemed to be only partial transcripts of the Libyan messages intercepted by the U.S. Those summaries, they said, certainly pointed to some Libyan involvement but did not quite prove that Gaddafi had planned and ordered the attack...
...overseas business they have lost, and many foreign companies may hold on to their American customers. "We've got a foothold in the U.S. market now, and it won't be so easy to displace us as the Americans think," notes a top adviser to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. "German products still appeal at these prices." M.I.T. Economist Paul Krugman believes it will take at least a year for the drop in the dollar to % have "a significant impact" on the trade balance. That view is shared by Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust...
Some of the 1986 arches allude explicitly to that extravagant era when follies proliferated; some are simply giddy. Their very existence seems fair evidence that a new gilded age is under way. For even though the seven architects (Charles Moore, Cesar Pelli, Stanley Tigerman, Michael Graves, Helmut Jahn and Texans Boone Powell and Eugene Aubry) worked for free, the arches cost $35,000 to $70,000 apiece; the budgets had been $25,000. Fortunately for Galvestonians, the project has deep-pocket private patrons...