Word: chancellor
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...what actually remains today of the original New Deal? Alexander Heard, 64, who is retiring soon as chancellor of Vanderbilt University, remembers working in the CCC as a youth, remembers it as a time when a new President "restored a sense of confidence and morale and hope-hope being the greatest of all." But what remains? "In a sense," says Heard, "what remains of the New Deal is the United States...
...West Germany, the key country in the antinuclear movement, the activists tended to approve of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's initial lukewarm reaction to Jaruzelski's crackdown. Typical was the attitude of Erhard Eppler, a member of the national executive committee of Schmidt's Social Democratic Party and a foe of the nuclear arms race. "For the most part, the peace movement was just as disgusted with what happened in Poland as anyone else," Eppler told TIME Senior Correspondent William Rademaekers. "The events were a shock, but the shock was overshadowed by the very emotional reaction...
Another step toward Western unity occurred in Paris, where French President François Mitterrand met for three hours with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The two leaders had some differences to iron out over the Polish question: Mitterrand had consistently taken a strong, anti-Soviet line about the imposition of martial law, while Schmidt had originally been tepid in his criticism, although he took a tougher stand after conferring with President Ronald Reagan two weeks ago. At the end of their meeting, Mitterrand and Schmidt declared that their views were now in harmony...
Schmidt's statement was significant because West Germany has lagged behind other allies in criticizing Moscow, and has been most vocal in its refusal to impose sanctions against the Soviet Union. U.S. officials hoped that the Chancellor's toughened stance will pay off this week at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers. The ministers prepared a joint declaration, scheduled to be issued Monday, that unequivocally blamed the Soviets for the Polish crackdown. But the allies were not expected to join the U.S. in levying sanctions...
Neither side had expected the Reagan-Schmidt meeting to be especially warm. From the time martial law was declared in Poland last December, Schmidt's criticism of the crackdown has been notably mild. The Administration, meanwhile, made little secret of its annoyance with the Chancellor's cautious attitude. One seasoned European observer predicted before the summit: "Reagan is going to give Schmidt one helluva rap on the knuckles...