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Just who belongs to this articulate elite? One favorite is Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, knowledgeable, funny and fast on his feet. Of the Cabinet, Brinkley singles out Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. Among foreign leaders, Brinkley and Kalb prize West Germany's ex-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. "He's the TV era's ideal West German Chancellor," says Kalb, since Schmidt speaks English well and can be "irritable and irritating." Kalb also finds Menachem Begin fascinating because "he says what he feels." Interesting historical question: Would the Middle East have been different, at least in American eyes...
...foretaste of what may be in store at Williamsburg came last week from French President François Mitterrand. At a press conference following a meeting with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Mitterrand lashed out at American economic policy and complained that "it is not normal for the U.S. budget deficit to be paid by us in Europe." His meaning: U.S. shortfalls are the prime cause for continuing high international interest rates; these, in turn, could squelch the hesitant economic recovery in Western Europe. As a side effect, the level of interest rates has powerfully augmented the value...
Mitterrand's outburst was an embarrassment to Chancellor Kohl, who prefers, as he put it at the same press conference, "to talk with friends and not at them." Nonetheless, concern over U.S. economic policies now appears to be endemic among all the allies. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has publicly cited the U.S. deficit as a contributor to "destructive" international interest rates, and so has British Chancellor of the Exchequer Geoffrey Howe...
...West Midlands, Deputy Labor Party Leader Denis Healey discovered a mechanical crab at a street market and held it up before TV cameras. "It moves sideways and evades your every instruction," he joked. "I'm going to call it Sir Geoffrey Howe." That swipe at Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer made the evening news programs. Said Healey: "Margaret Thatcher has turned the Tory Party into her personal dictatorship...
...University Chancellor John Slaughter publicly reprimanded Driesell for the calls...