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American efforts to coordinate an allied response to the Soviet intervention also received a setback late last week when France abruptly announced that it would not send a representative to a Foreign Ministers' meeting in Bonn next week. The talks had been initiated by the U.S. The French refusal to participate considerably undercut the impact of an unusually strong joint statement issued earlier in the week by French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt; it called the Soviet intervention "unacceptable" and demanded a withdrawal...
...French unwillingness to do much. Publicly, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week told the Bundestag that "we condemn the Soviet intervention" but also that "we must, with steadiness, consider our German and Western interests." Privately, he sighed to aides: "When you are neck-deep in manure, you must still smile." Bonn is increasing aid to Pakistan, Turkey and Greece, nations that might be threatened by the Soviets. Bonn also persuaded Paris at least to join the other community members in reviewing which high-technology items could be sold to the U.S.S.R. The West Germans will not go beyond that...
...nation for the boycott movement is West Germany, which normally would enter a strong team in Moscow. Bonn officials clearly would like their athletes to compete but were nervously watching world reaction to Carter's drive. Having criticized Carter so long for not dealing more sternly with the Kremlin, they found it uncomfortable to oppose his tough stance...
...handing Moscow its most serious U.N. setback since the 1956 condemnation of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Dozens of Third World states that have long followed the Moscow line almost automatically on international affairs last week went on record against the U.S.S.R. Commented a senior West German official in Bonn: "That's the advantage of Afghanistan...
DIED. Carlo Schmid, 83, grand old man of West Germany's Social Democratic Party; of cancer, in Bonn. After serving as a legal adviser in the German military government in France during World War II, the portly law and political science scholar was active in state government and emerged as one of the founders of the German Federal Republic. In 1948 he headed his party's delegation to the parliamentary council that drafted the nation's Basic Law. A year later he was elected a charter member of the Bundestag and served as its Vice President...