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...report, prepared by an ad hoc committee, also recommended that Chancellor Joseph M. Duffey and the board of trustees ask the Defense Department and congressmen for a review of a policy prohibiting homosexual recruitment by the military...
...most likely prospect is that the Europeans will try to get the U.S. to make a counteroffer to the Soviet proposals. Some idea of what that might be comes from West Germany. The government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl has some special anxieties. At present Soviet intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles can hit almost any country in Western Europe. If they are removed, the Soviets would be left with swarms of short-range missiles that for the most part are aimed at only one NATO country: West Germany. Thus the Germans fear that they will become more than ever...
Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt gave a landmark speech in London ten years ago, raising the alarm over the SS-20 and calling on the U.S. to redress the imbalance. American officials and experts were at first reluctant, in part because they feared that whatever Schmidt wanted, many in West Germany and elsewhere would protest the deployments and blame the U.S. for escalating the arms race...
Willy Brandt, who served as West German Chancellor from 1969 to 1974, has always enjoyed a reputation as a moody, unpredictable politician. He lived up to that billing last week when he abruptly quit his post as chairman of the Social Democratic Party. A stone-faced Brandt informed his colleagues he was resigning his position because of the "internal criticisms" of his leadership...
Kohl's attitude reflects West German public opinion. In a recent poll, 67% of the Chancellor's Christian Democratic Party voters said they believed Gorbachev's arms proposals were sincere. Aware that his words might cause concern in Washington and West European capitals, especially Paris, Kohl reiterated his commitment to the allies by saying, "There is no special German way to a solution...