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...most optimistic gloss on the letter's words came from West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The Soviet message, he said, included an "expression in principle of a preparedness to reconsider and revise the one-sided breaking off' of the negotiations. As proof, Kohl cited the continuation last week in Geneva of U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), which deal not with European-based weapons but with the intercontinental arsenals that the superpowers have trained on each other...
British Prime Minister Thatcher and Helmut Kohl, who had replaced Schmidt in October 1982 as West German Chancellor, were Reagan's staunchest allies; then-support for deployment was rock solid. But they both faced elections, and they needed a new, more flexible-looking U.S. proposal to help outflank their political opponents and quiet their domestic constituencies. Kohl's Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and Thatcher both asked the U.S. to adopt an "interim solution," in which the Soviets would be allowed to keep a reduced force of SS-20s, while the U.S. would scale back its own deployment...
Nitze realized that there would have to be major concessions on both sides in order to break the stalemate, and he felt that a breakthrough was essential for the West. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany and other West European leaders warned him that political support for the NATO deployments was slipping; if possible, they urged, there should be an agreement of some kind...
...neutralism is very fashionable in the now dominant wing of the party led by former Chancellor Willy Brandt and the SPD can indulge in irresponsibility while in opposition, but economic recovery may not come soon to West Germany, thus opening the way for a return to power, if Helmut Kohl's center right coalition cannot persist. While the socialists of Italy and France repeat the lessons of deterrence, the social Democrats of northern and Protestant Europe will be entranced with nuclear free schemes, "dissolving the blocs," and moving away from that "primitive anticommunist" of the bellicose Americans...
...parliamentary vote, former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt appealed to a special conference of the opposition Social Democratic Party to support the deployments. West Germany, Schmidt told some 400 delegates, "must keep to its word in spite of all the disappointments about speeches and about behavior in Washington." He added: "My second reason is that the political equilibrium would be enduringly disturbed if the Soviet Union forged ahead with its unprovoked, one-sided buildup." The speech received only perfunctory applause. Said a delegate: "We see his voice as a voice of the party's past." At the urging of former Chancellor...