Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will the larger destiny of Europe receive much attention at the conference. Instead, the delegates to the Paris meeting, like politicians everywhere, will concentrate on the art of the possible. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who faces an extremely tight election fight at home, needs a commitment from his EEC partners that inflation-a common European problem-be tackled by all member states together. He will undoubtedly get such an assurance. The Italians are also primarily concerned about economic objectives. What they want most is a program for assisting underdeveloped regions within Europe's own borders -notably Italy...
...admirers in the process as Rainer Candidus Barzel. He is almost all a politician should be: intelligent, hardworking, cool under pressure, a first-rate tactician and gifted debater. Yet Barzel suffers from a serious image problem. In voter preference polls, he badly trails the warmer and more personable Brandt, and even rates below some members of his own party. His critics have pinned on him a wide assortment of unlovely epithets: "aalglatt" (slippery as an eel), "a well-rehearsed Pharisee," "spontaneous as a robot...
...Relatively rich, traditionally conservative, proud of its 1,000-year history, Limburg (not to be confused with the province in Holland that is the home of the Limburger cheese) accurately reflects the central theme of the campaign so far: an overriding concern about inflation that has cut deeply into Brandt's lead in personal popularity. Last week TIME'S chief European correspondent William Rademaekers visited Limburg to assay the voters' mood. His report...
...loaf. I asked one supermarket customer how he would vote on Nov. 19. "I am not yet sure," he replied. "I won't tell you what party I belong to, but I will say that I'm not sure I trust Barzel. I trust Brandt, but I'm not sure about his party. If he's not careful, he could be leading us to another Weimar...
...dark comparison between the current inflationary trend and the days of Germany's post-World War I Weimar Republic, when inflation helped bring Hitler to power, was echoed several times. Said Joseph Kohlmaier, mayor of Limburg: "People here are generally pleased with the foreign policy of Willy Brandt, but there is also the feeling that the success in foreign policy has come at the expense of domestic programs. The Christian Democrats, in the minds of most people, stand for no inflation, even if it means a certain dampening of the job market...