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...noisily upset about the nuclear nonproliferation blueprint unveiled by the U.S. at the Geneva disarmament talks. Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, though none too pleased with a plan that could leave West Germany out in the cold bombwise, had politely praised it as "an interesting contribution." Erhard agreed, but not der Alte. In an address at Münster, one of some 50 campaign appearances scheduled by the doughty ex-Chancellor, he lashed out at the plan as "atrocious, dangerous and basically false, so monstrous and so terrible that in the long view it delivers Europe into the hands...
...exactly a magnetic speaker, but he was able to silence one heckler-packed audience in Heidelberg by stepping up to the mike and declaring, "Dear friends and opponents, so that the rest of us will know where we are, will the opponents please divide into those who are for Erhard and those who are for Adenauer...
Something for Everyone. Brandt's campaign-like Ludwig Erhard's-has been distinctly low key so far, He is currently riding around on a campaign train that, by election time, will have traveled 12,500 miles; he will have visited 44 major cities and delivered no fewer than 75 speeches and 250 curbside pep talks. He has stuck largely to such main issues as prices, education, and health-avoiding rough personal attacks on his opponent...
That task fell to Brandt's shadow Defense Minister Helmut Schmidt, 46. At a rally for 25,000 in Dortmund, Schmidt heaped scorn on Erhard. "One reads his campaign literature," cried Schmidt. "Me, me, me, I, I, I. The psychologists call this overcompensation of one's own complexes." To roars of applause and whistles, he went on, "The man has absolutely no powers of decision. The symbol on Herr Erhard's coat of arms should not be a cigar but a shaking pudding...
...Possibly because everyone remembered the classic incident in 1956 when Von Eckardt, then Konrad Adenauer's press chief, listened while der Alte chatted contemptuously about Erhard in a radio studio, not knowing that a tape recorder was running...