Polite-but Insistent-Questions

Five distinguished Europeans outline their priorities for President Reagan

Although every President since Herbert Hoover has visited Europe during his term of office, Ronald Reagan's trip is in many ways unprecedented. No U.S. President has ever addressed either the assembled members of the British Parliament or the West German Bundestag. Few Presidents have had to prepare for quite so many questions about their foreign, defense and economic policies. Western Europeans are of many minds as to the ideas the President should stress during his visit. TIME asked five Western European leaders, four of them former Prime Ministers and one a...

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