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...chair in the Cabinet room as Ford strode in. He began scribbling notes for his boss on the new economic moves. There came a week when he raced to Andrews Air Force Base and clambered aboard a windowless jet for a round-the-world flight. From Tokyo to Bonn, a small group of officials dispatched by the President helped explain to allied governments Ford's ideas for reviving the economy. Over the Christmas holidays Porter followed Seidman to Vail, Colo., and was seated at dinner across from Gerald Ford, listening as the President talked of his hopes for America...
...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...
...Josef Strauss, 59, the ham-fisted Bavarian political boss who has once again made a phoenix-like return from the political grave. From his base as leader of the C.S.U., Strauss has emerged after several years of political eclipse to become one of the most important power brokers in Bonn...
...demonstrated in his Cabinet positions. Yet in person, Strauss is a witty intellectual who can readily toss off Latin and Greek epigrams-in an incongruously thick Bavarian accent. His fondness for German Sekt is well known, and before his 1957 marriage to a brewer's daughter, he frequented Bonn's winehouses and Munich's cafes...
...OPEC governments at a distance; it would not borrow directly from the oil producers, but would draw instead on the OPEC billions already deposited in the Western banking system. The money would come chiefly from the economically stronger countries, meaning, in practice, the U.S. and West Germany. Since Bonn usually finds it hard to stray very far from a Washington lead in matters of international politics and finance, the U.S. would probably end up holding most of the strings of the safety...