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...Schmidt to detente and East-West trade. While quibbling about details, the Christian Democrats have generally supported Schmidt's decision to help finance the controversial Soviet gas pipeline. But the tenor of U.S.-West German relations may change. Schmidt, for example, annoyed Americans by failing to conceal his contempt for Presidents Carter and Reagan. "Kohl will be more accommodating toward the U.S.," says Walter Schutze of the Paris-based French Institute for International Relations. "It will not be a matter of substance, but the tune of Bonn-Washington relations will change. The Christian Democrats will play the same melody...
...example, she noted that Ronald Newcome, a social worker, was fired by England two days after he testified. Subsequently, England was held in contempt of court for harassment...
...good English that he had once, two years earlier. "Was she nice to you?" I asked. "Yes, she was nice," he said. "In Monaco, we love her." I said jokingly, "It's hard for us to think of her as a princess," trying to demonstrate a healthy American contempt for royalty. But I couldn't help enjoying the warm rush of pride that swept over me as I added. "She's just a girl from Philadelphia...
...civilian reader simply does not know whether to believe this legend making, retailed by the author in a tone of righteous contempt. Resentment underlies many of the arguments advanced here, and not all of it is directed against the Soviets. The author frets that "the resolve and the military capability of the West had since 1918 been sapped by an uncritical hankering for peace." Among the hankerers, they comment snidely, were what Lenin called "useful fools," and these fainthearts were quick to join "socalled 'peace movements,' unobtrusively orchestrated and largely paid for by the U.S.S.R...
...history of the pro-ERA movement is replete with excesses that demonstrate contempt for the democratic process. Consider a precedent-setting time extension for ratification, boycotts, hunger strikes, bags of animal blood, to name a few. And now we hear of raising millions to "get strong and get even." This approach resembles government by extortion. The ERA supporters appear more dangerous to the nation than the presumed inequality between the sexes...