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DIED. Henrich Focke, 88, German aircraft designer who helped develop the helicopter; in Bremen. Inspired by the drawings of Michelangelo, Focke in the mid-1930s built the FW-61, the first helicopter to receive an international certificate of airworthiness. Unsympathetic to the Nazi regime, Focke was removed from his company (Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG) before World War II and thus had no part in the production of the firm's famed fighter-bomber, the FW-190. He continued to design aircraft in France, Britain and Brazil, returning to his native country...
...blitz attack, a number of U.S. units have been shifted closer to the East German border. The most important redeployment is the transfer, still under way, of the 2nd Armored Division's powerful "Forward" Brigade from Grafenwöhr in the south to a new base outside Bremen. These are the first U.S. combat units to be permanently stationed in the North German Plain since the Occupation era. In this perfect tank country, through which invaders from the east are expected to come, the U.S. reinforces West German, British and Dutch troops. Some U.S. Air Force squadrons have also...
...under the scrutiny of the Community's Finance Ministers in Brussels last week. Devised by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to insulate Europe from fluctuations of the dollar, the plan had won approval in principle at a Common Market summit in Bremen last month, and had been presented to President Carter and other leaders of the industrial West at the subsequent Bonn summit. British Prime Minister James Callaghan, however, remained cool toward the idea. In the first place, the British?and for that matter, the Italians as well?are reluctant...
...Europe, meanwhile, the nine national leaders of the European Community staged a dress rehearsal summit of their own in the ancient port of Bremen, a favorite city of their host and current chairman, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. After two days of sometimes chummy, sometimes quarrelsome discussions in the tapestry-lined rooms of Bremen's gabled, 15th century city hall, the Club of Nine produced a three-point package that leaders of the four big European states will offer in Bonn...
Indeed, the important decisions at Bremen appeared to stem directly from German initiative and French endorsement. The centerpiece of the discussions was the new European monetary system, a Schmidt brainchild first brought up at a Community summit at Copenhagen last April and approved in principle by Giscard at a meeting with the West German leader in Hamburg two weeks...