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...Britain took a small, hopeful turn last week. At the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool, delegates representing more than ten million workers voted to accept Prime Minister Harold Wilson's recently announced program of wage restraints (see box page 61). Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey called it "a unique achievement" and there was euphoric speculation that the "I'm All Right Jack" era of union truculence might be over. The optimism is probably premature. The social conflicts that underlie Britain's labor problems are nowhere near being resolved...
...Warsaw reached an interim agreement, for instance, providing for the repatriation of some 125,000 ethnic Germans (out of a total of 280,000) from Poland to West Germany. Cost to Bonn: almost $1 billion in credits and pensions. In addition, the conversations at Helsinki between West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and East German Communist Boss Erich Honecker were said to have led to some progress in the long-stalled negotiations between the two Germanys. In other respects, however, Honecker seemed totally unaffected by the spirit of Helsinki. Back home last week, he quickly declared that the Final Act notwithstanding...
...negotiated over the past two years, that formalized the postwar boundaries of Eastern Europe. In perhaps the most dramatic moment, the 35 delegations arrived at the conference in handsome Finlandia House almost simultaneously Wednesday morning to begin the largest meeting of national leaders ever held in Europe. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt bounded from his seat and pumped the hand of Leonid Brezhnev; moments later he greeted a buoyant President Gerald Ford in the same way. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, veterans of many a conference, smiled at each other across...
...give you a chance to pay your respects-and get a little business done." Besides two meetings with Brezhnev, Ford talked privately with, among others, Britain's Wilson, France's Giscard, Turkey's Demirel and Greek Premier Constantine Caramanlis. The champion in the bilateral race was Chancellor Schmidt, who managed 14 meetings with 13 other leaders, many of them from Eastern Europe. His goals: to get the East Europeans to ease up on their reluctance to include West Berlin in agreements dealing with West Germany and to advance Bonn's already booming trade relations with...
President Ford's tour through Europe last week gave him no holiday from economic worries. During long meetings in Bonn, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt urged the U.S. to coordinate economic policy more closely with Europe and specifically to avoid any restrictive moves, such as raising interest rates, that could damage the chances for recovery abroad. Later, during the 35-nation European Security Conference in Helsinki, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing took Ford aside to restate his well-known position that a return to normal economic growth will not be possible without a thorough monetary...