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...feet of Teletype paper. These celebrations underscored Brezhnev's position as the sole survivor among the big-power leaders of the past decade. Lyndon Johnson, Charles de Gaulle and Mao Tsetung are dead. The two men with whom he fashioned the concept of detente-Richard Nixon and Willy Brandt-no longer lead. Last week, as Brezhnev reached his 70th birthday, TIME'S Moscow correspondent Marsh Clark cabled this assessment of the Soviet leader...
...young leftists who have taken over the Social Democrats' party machinery in a few major cities. Although Schmidt embodies the old virtues as well as anyone, he had to bear the banner for a party that acquired a largely undeserved left-leaning reputation under former Chancellor Willy Brandt. Since West German voters elect their Chancellor by voting for a party, rather than directly for an individual candidate, that bogus image may have cost Schmidt the easy victory he was entitled to by standards of achievement...
...Possessed by Caesarmania" and "obsessed with power." That is how Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl has recently been castigating Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. One Social Democratic retort, fired off by Party Chairman Willy Brandt, is that the Christian Democrats are "oozing arrogance and stupidity with their upper-class attitudes." Schmidt, whose sharp tongue long ago earned him the nickname "the Lip," contemptuously refers to Kohl, who is Minister-President (governor) of the Rhineland-Palatinate, as "the Minister-President of where...
Much of the electorate seems to believe it is time for a change. The Social Democrats, in coalition with the small, liberal Free Democratic Party, have been in power for seven years. Schmidt, however, has been Chancellor only since May 1974; he took office when Brandt resigned after one of his closest aides was unmasked as an East German...
Another problem for the S.P.D. is its reputation, mostly undeserved, for being soft on Communism. Though Schmidt is an outspoken antiCommunist, many Germans are dismayed by what they now feel was the excessive willingness of Brandt to normalize relations with the regimes of Eastern Europe without sufficient quid...