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...brainstorm of Dirk Tillen, a Düsseldorf producer who knew that Scheel, 54, was not only a member of the Düsseldorf Men's Glee Club but an irrepressible baritone who would even toss off a ditty or two at birthday parties for Chancellor Willy Brandt. The curiosity factor alone, Tillen reasoned, would sell discs. An added inducement was the promise that profits would go mainly to one of the Foreign Minister's favorite charities -handicapped children. Scheel immediately jumped at the idea, brushing aside complaints from top aides that cutting a record was beneath...
Only a year ago, the Times of London wrote about Willy Brandt: "It is almost inconceivable that he would not be elected President of Europe against any competition." Brandt had just won a decisive re-election victory, and his Social Democrats were widely expected to stay in power for another decade at least. Today the West German Chancellor clearly finds his job so frustrating that he would welcome a way to renounce it with grace...
Like Gulliver, Brandt is entangled in a network of Lilliputian political problems, and they are crippling his leadership. Amid the portents of disaster -or rather above them, which is part of the problem -stands the Nobel Peace prizewinner, usually silent, often indecisive. His personality has always been elusive, and associates say that it is becoming more so. He wants to be liked, and so he avoids personal confrontation.He remains aloof from battles or postpones dealing with them until they balloon out of all proportion to their basic importance. To those around him, he increasingly gives the impression...
Inside Germany, the Brandt government has pledged to give workers' representatives not just a voice, but an equal voice in company policymaking. It proposes to require all major German corporations to establish boards composed of equal numbers of workers' and stockholders' representatives, with an impartial chairman acceptable to both sides. At present only the coal and steel industries have to give labor that much say, but the idea is moving beyond German borders. In Switzerland three trade unions have petitioned the country's Parliament to call a national referendum on labor's right...
Heated Exchange. In the light of his bitter, derisive comments about the NATO allies during the Middle Eastern war, many foreign ministries were awash with rumors about how he would behave in Brussels. "Henry Kissinger," said West German Chancellor Willy Brandt sarcastically, "will come to Brussels to spank all of us naughty Europeans." Not trusting to their own embassies in Washington, diplomats buttonholed American journalists with worried questions about Kissinger: Would he, as Brandt suggested, scold them as if they were high school students? Or would he bang on the table...