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...warhead that was skillfully fanned by Moscow, Schmidt apparently would not risk backing the weapon openly, although he did so privately. While the President eventually made no decision-he neither authorized the weapon's development nor definitively dropped it-the episode triggered a political flurry in Bonn. The Bundestag's Foreign Affairs and Defense committees last week summoned Schmidt to clarify the problems in U.S.-West German ties in a secret joint session. The Chancellor also had to take the Bundestag's rostrum to open a neutron bomb debate demanded by his conservative opposition...
Schmidt's Bundestag audience was so concerned over the deteriorating relations with Washington that he stoutly had to proclaim the obvious: "West German-U.S. relations are so deeply entrenched that they cannot be uprooted by occasional differences of opinion." Schmidt then made a significant concession to Carter, who has linked eventual development of the bomb partly to Bonn's willingness to deploy it on West German soil. For the first time, the Chancellor openly backed the new weapon and stated that it could be based in his country if it would "be a decision of the [NATO...
Hours after ordering the man hunt, Schmidt appeared before a special session of the Bundestag. He warned that "terrorism is by no means dead, neither in Germany nor anywhere else in the world." Earlier in the week, the Paris daily Figaro had headlined: THE LIFE OF EVERY NATION IS AT STAKE. If that was the case, Schmidt had shown that his government was prepared to fight for Germany's life...
Following Schleyer's kidnaping, Schmidt had set up two crisis staffs that met frequently in marathon sessions, at the heavily guarded Chancellery in Bonn. Elected officials and political leaders spent countless hours there in conferences, and the normal functions of the government slowed discernibly. The Bundestag dealt with only the most pressing business; the Chancellor canceled a state visit to Poland and a number of speaking engagements across the country...
...Martin Schleyer by terrorists of the notorious Red Army Faction (TIME, Sept. 19). In a daring ambush of his automobile, Schleyer's three bodyguards and chauffeur were killed; it was the third terrorist attack on a prominent West German this year. Speaking before a packed session of the Bundestag last week, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt made an emotional televised appeal to Schleyer's kidnapers to "stop this mad operation," which strikes "against our liberal order as a whole, against any human order whatsoever and therefore against all of us." He assured West Germans-who according to recent...