Word: chancellor
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...prominent West German politician and possible successor to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told a Harvard audience yesterday that the Reagan administration's attitude towards arms control strain relations between his country and the United States...
...Washington hard to accept the zero option. In fact, success seemed to have the usual number of fathers. Officials in West Germany and Italy, the countries where most of the planned new missiles are to be based, claimed partial credit for devising the plan. The most notable claimant was Chancellor Schmidt, who likes to see himself as a useful mediator between the superpowers. Reagan's speech, said Schmidt, "gives me a broad base for the talks" he will have this week with Brezhnev. For once in the East-West war of words, the Soviets will be forced to react...
...which linked the stationing of new nuclear weapons in Europe to a renewed effort by the U.S. to negotiate realistic arms limits with the Soviets. The President helped dispel some of those doubts. In Bonn, where Brezhnev was scheduled to start a four-day visit on Sunday, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had just concluded talks with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. "Reagan has set forth a comprehensive concept for the stabilization of peace," said Schmidt. Added Thatcher: "It will receive a warm welcome not only in political circles but in the hearts and minds of people across Europe...
...West German Chancellor's endorsement of the 1979 NATO decision has been challenged by the strong, vocal left wing of his own Social Democratic Party. Last month...
...gone far enough, and made it clear that they would continue their campaign. eagan displayed an actor's exquisite sense of timing as he finally decided to step out on the foreign policy stage. Last weekend Brezhnev was due in Bonn for a four-day visit with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who, of all the NATO leaders, has most directly staked his future on the missile issue. West Germany, on NATO'S front line, is crucial to the deployment of the new U.S. weapons...