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Anderson then took off on what he called "a sentimental journey" to West Berlin, where in the early '50s he was married to his wife Keke while serving as a young Foreign Service officer. In Bonn, he talked with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt for two hours and pleased West German leaders by faulting Carter for failing to consult European allies more often...
Strauss and his fellow Bavarians have been pressing Bonn to build more of these camps to handle the immigrants as they arrive. The camps, built at federal expense, would reduce the financial strain on local governments. Last week the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) instead moved to slow the increasingly burdensome influx of foreigners by passing a tough new set of regulations on asylum applications. Asylum seekers will not be eligible for work permits during their first year in West Germany, nor will family-support payments be made unless asylum has been confirmed. Judicial procedures will be streamlined, so that...
Politics was rarely absent from the pageantry, and Giscard seized several occasions to assert what he called the "independence and power of Europe." At a state banquet near Bonn, for example, he startled his hosts somewhat by calling for a "renaissance of European influence," led by France and Germany, and "the reappearance of an independent and self-assured Europe in world affairs...
Giscard's strong language prompted West German officials to assure Washington privately that Bonn remained solidly pro-West and pro-NATO. Taking a softer line in his public pronouncements, Schmidt carefully avoided Giscard's themes of "power" and "influence" in favor of blander and more ecumenical expressions of "cooperation and friendship...
...creation of a joint European nuclear defense program that would combine French know-how with West German financial resources. The obstacles to such cooperation remain almost insurmountable. The London agreements of 1954 concerning West German sovereignty and membership in NATO forever precluded the acquisition of atomic weapons by Bonn, and Moscow has made it clear that it would never tolerate a West German finger on the nuclear trigger. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week reiterated a long-standing West German promise that "we are not a nuclear power, nor do we intend to become...