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...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...
...government and his policies. Schmidt was particularly incensed by the action of 58 members of parliament belonging to his own Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) who signed a declaration of support for the rally. Galling too was the fact that one of the principal speakers at the rally, Erhard Eppler, is a member of the S.P.D.'s national executive committee and a former member of the Cabinet. Said Schmidt: "The demonstrators are blind to the huge Soviet [arms] buildup. They make no substantial contribution to securing peace on the basis of military balance. Instead, they weaken the West...
...interview with TIME, Eppler dismissed Schmidt's concern, one essentially shared by the leaders of most Western countries, as alarmist. He gave the peace movement credit, somewhat dubiously, for pressuring the U.S. into setting a date for the resumption of arms talks with the Soviet Union. "The Chancellor sees threats where there are none," Eppler said. Like most West German peace crusaders, Eppler is opposed to unilateral disarmament, favoring a step-by-step process of limiting nuclear arms on both sides. Said Eppler: "We have reached a point where the confrontation of the superpowers in Europe could threaten...
Kissinger chose well: among the graduates of his seminars are Belgium's prospective Prime Minister Leo Tinde-mans, West German Minister for Economic Cooperation Erhard Eppler, Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, South Korean former Prime Minister Chung II Kwon, Japanese Minister of Trade and Industry Yasuhiro Nakasone, Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Frydenlund, and such prominent nongovernment figures as West German Editor Theo Sommer and British Historian Michael Foot...
...Buratti (Rutgers) 130.2 pts.; second, Doran (Princeton) 125.6 pts.; third, Smyke (Springfield) 119.7 pts.; fourth, Eppler (Cornell...