Word: chancellor
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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...
...meeting's mood. In fact, there were reports from Bonn that Schmidt was in a combative spirit and had even boasted to aides that he had "at least fifteen tough questions I will put to him [Carter], and we'll see how he manages those." The Chancellor made no secret of his distaste for what he regards as Carter's preachy moralism on such issues as human rights and nuclear proliferation. Nor did he conceal his bitter resentment over what he felt was Carter's persistent schoolmasterly advice to Bonn on its duty to do more...
...agenda is Carter himself, making his first trip abroad as President. Foreign leaders are curious about him. To them, he remains an unknown and sometimes baffling phenomenon. They acknowledge that he has assumed control of U.S. foreign policy but wonder if he knows how to manage it. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in particular, distrusts what he considers an evangelistic style and inexperience. "He is making policy from the pulpit," scoffs Schmidt privately. In an effort to strike up a badly needed rapport, the President and the Chancellor will have a private talk during the sessions...
...Chancellor Manuscript, Ludlum...
...Chancellor Manuscript, Ludlum...