Word: stoltenberg
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...heels of Cheney's announcement, word reached Washington that West German Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg has drawn plans for a 15% reduction in the Bundeswehr by 1991. Almost simultaneously, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the West German Foreign Minister, arrived in Washington and let it be known that any U.S. plans to modernize short-range nuclear weapons in Europe are out of the question now that the two Germanys are groping toward reconciliation. "No German government will discuss any weapons system that might result in nuclear weapons being targeted at Dresden and Leipzig," said a Genscher aide...
Soviet secretiveness over accidents has been a cause of upset in the West, where high standards are observed regarding disclosure of nuclear accidents. In Norway patience is wearing particularly thin. Anger was plainly evident last week when Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg denounced Soviet reluctance to divulge information as "unacceptable...
...four men sat for a while on the State Department's eighth-floor balcony, overlooking beds of red and yellow tulips. But the meeting was a good deal less pleasant than the surroundings. Across from West Germany's Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg sat a grim-faced American duo: Secretary of State James Baker and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. After the four-hour meeting, Baker declared himself "furious" that the Germans had come...
...elimination of all short-range nuclear arms in NATO's forward zones, something the U.S. categorically rejects on the ground that without them, conflicts might break out more easily. The Bonn government is so eager to overcome U.S. opposition to these talks that it has dispatched Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg to Washington to plead Germany's cause. The U.S. would rather Stoltenberg stayed home, since the Administration does not intend to change its mind...
Wall Street and just about everyone else was exhorting Washington last week to get moving on the budget deficit. Declared West Germany's Finance Minister, Gerhard Stoltenberg: "The center is Washington. That's where the difficulties are coming from." In the U.S., a group of more than 150 business leaders, lawyers, educators and former Cabinet members, calling themselves the Bipartisan Budget Appeal, took out a two-page advertisement in the New York Times and the Washington Post to demand spending cuts of at least $30 billion to $40 billion in fiscal 1988. Said the group, which included a range...