Word: chancellor
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...Leonid Brezhnev. Co-starring in a role that his fans are a little uneasy about is Gerald Ford, who is coming up fast as a jovial but strong character actor. Among the performers sharing the limelight will be French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In all, leaders or representatives of 35 states will gather at Helsinki, including spokesmen for the Vatican and every European country except myopic, Maoist Albania. Everyone seemed...
...such meetings will take place (though nowhere near as many as the potential maximum of 1,190, presumably). Ford is expected to confer at least twice with Brezhnev, for instance, about the SALT II negotiations and the currently stalled Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction (MBFR) talks in Vienna. Chancellor Schmidt has let it be known that he hopes to see every Eastern European party leader, starting with Brezhnev, Poland's Edward Gierek and East Germany's Erich Honecker. Giscard and Wilson can be expected to do the same, if only to avoid being outpointed by Schmidt. Leaders...
...however, the special character of the relationship should continue to prove helpful to Israel. Rabin and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt reached no dramatic decisions in their conversations last week. Much of their time together was spent reviewing the Middle East situation, with Schmidt pressing Rabin to accept concessions that would lead to peace. In private conversations, however, West German officials indicated at least obliquely that if another Middle East war occurred and Israel needed European landing rights for planes bringing supplies from the U.S., this would be no problem...
...Prime Minister Harold Wilson himself and not Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey who stepped up to the dispatch box in the House of Commons. In the ominous tones he reserves for grave occasions, Wilson told the House of the "economic catastrophe" facing the country. To reverse the tide of inflation (running at an annual rate of 28%) and to calm the jitters of foreign creditors who had caused the pound sterling to hit an all-time low, Wilson formally spelled out the details of Healey's proposed new program of wage, price and dividend controls (TIME, July...
Skillful Wilson. In the end, Healey, who has earned the sobriquet of "the Iron Chancellor," did not get everything he wanted, but considerably more than he had a right to expect. As one Tory M.P. conceded, "The rats have got at it [the government's proposal] much less than expected...