Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practiced by well-informed West Germans, it has become something of a national indoor sport. The game: coalition politics, or trying to outguess your friends on the composition of the next government in Bonn. Any number can play, and currently many are doing so. The reason: Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats is in such trouble, largely on economic issues, that some observers fear it may not survive until the next scheduled federal election in November 1976. Last week Bonn was buzzing with rumors that the Free Democrats, who have suffered a string...
...come from West Germany and The Netherlands. Schmidt, for his part, was pleased that he had been able to convince other leaders of the seriousness of the world economic situation and to achieve at least some unity on anti-inflation and antirecession policies. Basically, the new unity means that Bonn, which has been deflating its economy to fight inflation, will now try to boost it to combat recession, a step most of the other countries took some time ago. The agreement to coordinate policy allowed Giscard to tell President Ford in Martinique that the Market shared the same broad views...
...Washington, Schmidt's main aim was simply to get acquainted with Gerald Ford. There are no major issues dividing Bonn and Washington, and Schmidt wanted to meet with Ford's top economic advisers to try to better coordinate the U.S.-German attack on inflation and world recession. He also urged the U.S. to take much stronger steps to conserve energy. For their part, Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wanted to hear more about Schmidt's somewhat gloomy views on the future of the Atlantic community...
...technocrat who rose through the ranks of the Social Democratic Party, Schmidt, 55, is only five years younger than Willy Brandt, but his brusque, businesslike style has made it seem as if a new generation has taken over in Bonn. Bouncing out of his Rhineside bungalow early each morning, he likes to blast a referee's whistle as he starts across the lawn to the chancellery. The message to his aides: get things moving. To Germans, he is known as a Macher (doer). He has cut out the rambling presentations from ministers that Brandt allowed and lectured them...
Dressed in a blue blazer, gray slacks and a stiffly starched white shirt accented by a vibrant red and blue tie, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt looked the very model of brisk efficiency as he spoke last week with Editor in Chief Donovan, Correspondent Rademaekers, and Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan in his streamlined L-shaped office in Bonn. During the hour-long interview, Schmidt lived up to his reputation as an intellectually vigorous and self-confident politician. Excerpts...