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G~CLAS ACTION DEPT'~INF0° BONN 80 °INFO LONDON PARIS M'~§b~d· 21 HI CINCEUR USAREUR US~SHAPE USELMLO FROM BE:RLIN. UNN .JULY 21, 6P:, 
PARIS ALSO FOR USRO. 
JOINT STATE/USIA MESSAGE. 
EDITORIAL REACTION WEST BERLIN PRESS TO GOLD1,rATER NOMINATION P~EDOMINANTLY NEGATIVE . MOST PAPERS REGARD NOMINATION AS PROTEST AGAINST PRESENT US POLICY AND AS EVIDENCE OF DEVELOPING R~DICALIS~ 
I. US POLITI CS. SENATOR PERSONNALLY REGARDED AS "MILD WESTERNER". ONLY $~ALL-CIRCULATION RIGHT RADICAL WEEKLIES WOCHENFCHO AND 7-UHR 
BLATT APPROVED CANDIDACY. 
TAGGESSPIEGEL <IND> S?OKE OF "END OF KENNEDY ERA," BELIEVING THAT GOLD• ATER CANDIDACY WILL IPSO FACTO CAUSE CHANGE IN US POLICY • CALLI t.G NOM IN AT I ON "AN HIST OR I CAL CHANGE," PAPER Sf!J_D SPIRIT WHICH 
PAGE TWO RUFHJA 112 UN CL ASS I F I ED MOTIVATED CHOICE OF GOLDWATER IS DECISIVE, "ONE OF MOST IMPORTANT CHANGES IN AMER I CAN POLITI CAL ·LIFE". · T AGGESSPIEGEL REFERRED TO GENERAL INSECURITY AMONG EUROPEAN ALLIES · WITH REGARD TO EVENTS IN 
us. 
KURfl!R C?RQ-JCDU> TLtTZ I 1G SPEECH, REVOLUTION• ON SPEECH REFLECTS 
LINKED ~ GOLD\•'ATER. VICTORY WITH AMBASSADOR ~CGHEE•S SAY I NG LATTER .. SHOt.iJS EFFECT HHI CH 'CONSERV /\T fVE WEST COAST HAS OVER A DISTANCE." KURI:R SUGGESTED HARDENING OF US POLICY VIS A VIS RUSSIA, \•'HICl-i 
PAPER REGARDS 'AS 
GOLDWATER. PAPER 
SAID THAT BACKING 
FOR US POLICY AND 
LOt'G PERIOD" HAVE 

BEGINNING OF RESPONSE T 0 AL TERN AT IVES POSED BY 
DISCOUNTED A GOLD~ATER VICTORY IN ~OVE~BER BUT HE HAS RECEIVED WILL HAVE INEVITABLE CONSE~UENCE INDICATES THAT AMERICANS "FOR FIRST TIME IN A BEEN SHOWN THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO CURRENT 
POLICY OF US GOVT.· 
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-2-92, JULY 21, 6 PM, FROM BERLIN 
S?ANDAUER VOLKSBLATT CPRO-SPD> VIEW~ NOMINATION "WITH SHOCK" 
.C\ND SAID iT ILLUST.RATES INCREASING RADICAL TRENDS IN' us. CITING 
ASS/\SSINATION PRES KEdNEDY AS ONE FORM OF RADICALISM, PAPER 
EXPRESSED DISAPPOTNTMENT THAT AMERICAN PEOPLE NOT NOW AWARE OF 
DH~1~ŁRS OF RADICALISM. 

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ERLINER MORGENPOST CIND. SPRINGER) SUGGESTED GOLDWATER BE 
.. TREATED nf'AIRLYn SINCE HE IS ·ADVOCATE OF MANY THINGS \1IHICH B:RLINERS UN ERSTAND. MOREOVER, PAPER SAID, SHOULD HE BECOME PR'""SIDENT, A1 1TI-GOLDWATER SENTI~ENT IN ·GERMANY WOULD NOT BE GOOD .. 
TELEGRAF CSPD) ACCUSED SE~ATOR OF DANGEROUS GIFT OF OVER-SIMPLIFI­
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CATION ALD SAID HIS IDEAS DERIVE FROM OX-CART DAYS OF· THE WEST. 

EAST BERLIN PRESS ATTACKED SENATOR AS REP OF "COALITION OF MOST ADVENTUROUS, REACTIONARY, AGGRESSIVE AND FASCIST CURRENTS•", SAYING HE RECEIVES SUPPORT FROM CHAUVINISTIC. AND RACIST ELEMENTS, ARMS MAJUFACTURERS, MONOPOLISTS, AMERICAN NAZI PARTY, KU KLUX KLAN AND' JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY. NEUES DEUTSCHLAND CSED) DECLARED: "WITHOUT DOUBT GOLDWATER IS A MAN AFTER THE HEART OF THE WEST GERMAN IMPER I ALIS TS. A DEFEAT OF JOHNSON IN NOVEMBER WOULD . BE. A DAY OF JOY FOR THE LEADERSHIP OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC". CALHOUN 
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