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Pierre Trudeau, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti. A notable absentee: French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who boycotted the dinner. Reason: he was piqued that British Laborite Roy Jenkins had been invited to both Callaghan's dinner and some of the summit sessions in his capacity as president of the European Community's Brussels-based commission. Like his predecessors, Giscard is determined to keep the Common Market and its representatives from getting too uppity...
Intimate Brainstorming. After the summit Carter was to remain in London, ostensibly to discuss Berlin with Callaghan, Schmidt and Giscard. In fact, that was merely a pretext (also used by Henry Kissinger) to enable the West's four major military powers to hold an intimate brainstorming session about pressing global political issues. Since there are currently no major problems over Berlin, the Big Four were expected to discuss the Middle East, conventional arms exports, nuclear proliferation and the SALT talks...
...imperial trappings-as their guest professes to be-rolled out a rich red carpet for him. The President stepped from his plane, carrying an efficient little briefcase instead of his usual suit bag. He stood in the nighttime chill, without an overcoat, and listened as British Prime Minister James Callaghan remarked that the task before the summit meeting was "nothing less than to overcome poverty, to get people to work and our economies in a healthier state than they...
...Jimmy Callaghan and Jimmy Carter had more, or less, than summitry on their minds. Even as Callaghan was speaking at the airport, his Labor Party was losing badly to the Conservatives in Britain's county elections, largely because of voter dissatisfaction with the country's sorry economy. The Prime Minister, who is in a fight for his political life, could use help from any quarter. And the next day he got some from a foreigner. Carter showed him-handshake by handshake-the art of politicking American-style...
Several weeks ago, when Callaghan visited the U.S., the President had expressed an interest in taking a side trip outside London when he came to England for the economic summit. Carter mentioned Wales, the birthplace of his favorite poet Dylan Thomas. But Callaghan, concerned about possible problems with Welsh nationalists, suggested Newcastle-upon-Tyne (pop. 295,700), a grimy coal town that is rife with unemployment as it attempts to shift to cleaner industries. Besides being the home of Washington's ancestors, Newcastle is a stronghold of the Labor Party (although the Conservatives did surprisingly well there in last...