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Many European and Japanese leaders criticize American timidity over atomic power. They hold the U.S. responsible for slowing international research and development on the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel and new technology for breeder reactors. Says former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt: "Nobody should pretend that mankind can return to nuclear innocence...
...Georgia's attack. Going into the regular-season finale against Georgia Tech this Saturday, he has rushed for 1,411 yds., a new school record and only 175 yds. short of the N.C.A.A. mark for first-year players set by Tony Dorsett at Pittsburgh in 1973. Says Gil Brandt, director of player personnel for the Dallas Cowboys: "Walker and Earl Campbell are the only two players I've ever seen who could have gone straight from high school to the pros...
Keeping some distance from the Americans is also the policy of the left-wing socialists who constitute an influential minority within Schmidt's Social Democratic Party. Says one of its most prominent members, former Chancellor Willy Brandt: "We must not be more American than the Americans." As half of a divided nation, West Germany is reluctant to pursue policies that could impair the ability of its citizens to visit their relatives in East Germany or that could once again raise tensions around Berlin. In the aftermath of Bonn's condemnation of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for example, Moscow forced...
...President Richard Nixon abandons dollar convertibility, persuading Europeans that the U.S. will no longer act as guardian of the major international currency. NATO members show rising support for West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik, a rapprochement with the Communist bloc...
...Communist deputies of lining up with "reactionaries" against him. That thrust was aimed at Berlinguer's determined recent campaign to seek ties with the Socialist and other moderate parties of Europe. Berlinguer has held summit-like meetings with French Socialist Leader François Mitterrand and with Willy Brandt, chairman of the West German Social Democratic Party. Says Italian Communist Policymaker Sergio Segre, a deputy at Strasbourg: "We sometimes find ourselves voting on the same side as the Christian Democrats of West Germany or even the Conservatives of Britain...