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...that level, decisions are all personal," former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said. "And how they are made and who makes them does make a difference." By one globetrotting diplomat's count, Carter went to Bonn with real support only from, Britain's Prime Minister Callaghan. The sentiment of the other five ranged from doubt to contempt...
...world, there was a storm of protest directed against the Shcharansky trial and the court cases conducted simultaneously against two other human rights activists: Alexander Ginzburg and Viktoras Pektus. They also were found guilty last week and sentenced respectively to eight and ten years. In Britain, Prime Minister James Callaghan charged that these cases "bear some of the hallmarks of the trials we knew in Stalin's day" (see box). In Israel, where attacks on Soviet Jews are perceived as a family tragedy, Premier Menachem Begin said that Shcharansky's "only sin was that he wanted to join his people...
...proposals initially drew prickly opposition. At Dutch instigation, four small countries called a separate caucus to sulk over what they regarded as West German and French highhandedness. British Prime Minister James Callaghan, who is reluctant to inhibit the pound in any case, argued that the scheme could be construed by Washington as a move against the dollar. Schmidt proved to be one step ahead of his critics. In a series of telephone calls to Carter, he apparently succeeded in getting Washington's blessing for the monetary idea. Said a ranking German finance ministry official...
...where the 15 members are scheduled to consider a "longterm defense program" to meet the Soviet arms threat over the next 15 years. Though some quarreling among members of the chronically troubled alliance seemed inevitable, U.S. planners were encouraged by advance pledges of support from British Prime Minister James Callaghan, who will be one of twelve heads of government attending. By ironic coincidence, the meeting's chairman will be Turkish Premier Bülent Ecevit, who is one of the alliance's more disaffected members as the result of a congressionally imposed arms embargo. However, he is expected...
...decision. Moreover, he has asked Russia for nothing comparable in return for these unilateral actions. In West Germany, where his reputation is lowest, Carter is considered by some officials to be the worst President since World War II. In Britain, he has been supported by Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, but recently he has come under savage fire from a variety of politicians and journalists...