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...Helmut Schmidt and other West German officials, Jimmy Carter's wavering earlier this month about whether to develop the weapon seemed to confirm their doubts about the President's ability to lead the alliance effectively. Although Schmidt was publicly muting the impact of the episode last week, Bonn officials continued to complain privately, as one put it, that the neutron imbroglio "makes Carter's leadership even more questionable...
...inhuman" warhead that was skillfully fanned by Moscow, Schmidt apparently would not risk backing the weapon openly, although he did so privately. While the President eventually made no decision-he neither authorized the weapon's development nor definitively dropped it-the episode triggered a political flurry in Bonn. The Bundestag's Foreign Affairs and Defense committees last week summoned Schmidt to clarify the problems in U.S.-West German ties in a secret joint session. The Chancellor also had to take the Bundestag's rostrum to open a neutron bomb debate demanded by his conservative opposition...
...weapons has only resulted in the intensification of the arms race." The French, who twelve years ago withdrew from the command structure of NATO, say they would refuse to allow the bomb on their territory and look on it as a problem that mainly concerns Washington and Bonn. The West Germans, however, have been doing their best to evade the issue...
What happens next depends mostly on Bonn and Moscow. Carter has flatly ruled out producing the bomb until West Germany agrees publicly to let the weapon be installed on its territory. Because of the bomb's importance to West Germany's defense, Bonn is expected to come around eventually. At the same time, according to a White House adviser, the decision "puts the monkey back on the Russians' back. Now we are giving them a chance to give us something real. If they do nothing, we'll end up with neutron warheads in Germany...
...support measures, leading money traders to think that something big was coming. The negotiations were conducted by transatlantic telephone calls, mostly between Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon, a reserved, pipe-smoking, self-made millionaire, and Manfred Lahnstein, State Secretary of the West German Finance Ministry, who is one of Bonn's fastest rising whiz kids...