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...pursue a policy of détente with their Communist neighbors to the east. No longer. The Soviets got a close look last week at Bonn's first Christian Democratic Chancellor after 13 years of Social Democratic rule, and they did not entirely like what they saw. Helmut Kohl's 48-hour visit to Moscow turned out to be a bruising diplomatic skirmish that started badly and ended, as Kohl fully expected, in a standoff. Under a barrage of Soviet threats, Chancellor Kohl stood firm on the one issue that dominated his talks with Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov...
Kohl's exchanges with Andropov were not a waste of time. While his Social Democratic predecessors in office, Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt, often saw themselves as intermediaries between the Kremlin and the West, Kohl repeatedly ruled out any such role for himself. He was going to Moscow, he said, "not as a mediator or interpreter but to represent German interests...
...While Helmut Kohl was visiting Moscow last week, a flood of U.S. visitors came to town as well. Among them: 21 Congressmen, most of them invited by the Supreme Soviet; twelve peripatetic New England newspaper editors; Film Director Alan Pakula, who was screening his film Sophie's Choice for Soviet film makers; and eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Me., who was on her way Andropov a youth camp in the Crimea. Samantha had written to Yuri Andropov in April, and he answered with an invitation to visit his country at Soviet expense...
...pressure from Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, who, to Moscow's embarrassment, has frequently criticized both the East and the West for the arms buildup. Another explanation was that the Warsaw Pact leaders wanted to sound a peaceful note on the eve of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's meeting with Soviet President Yuri Andropov in Moscow this week. Andropov will undoubtedly urge Kohl not to accept deployment of Pershing II missiles on West German soil...
...Atlantic Alliance. After our election, I think we are much more likely to get disarmament negotiations going, and that would be a very cohesive thing in the alliance. I think the Russians are desperately hoping that their efforts will have some effect on our public opinion. [Chancellor] Helmut Kohl's election was immensely important to the NATO alliance in West Germany, so mine here is immensely important. I think it is only after the Russians know that the main legs of the alliance are staying absolutely firm that we might get some genuine disarmament negotiations going in Geneva. There...