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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Past summits have taught the participants to be prudent about raising excessive expectations. One U.S. Sherpa last week was already lamenting that "right now it looks like it will be all mush and mirrors." West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has conceded that "we should not expect massive breakthroughs at Tokyo" but rather should aim for "a set of priorities about what should and should not be done." As Schmidt said last week, even if their accomplishments have sometimes seemed meager, the economic summits have helped the world avoid a repetition of the great Depression of the 1930s "which would have...
Question: What do these people have in common: former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, French Health Minister Simone Veil, British Socialist Barbara Castle, Ulster's Protestant Minister Ian Paisley and Otto von Habsburg, eldest son of the last Austro-Hungarian Emperor...
...Socialist bloc came in a decided No. 2 to the center-right parties, even though it is larger than any one of them. If the three latter groups (the Christian Democrats of continental Europe, with 106 seats; the British and Danish Conservatives, with 63 seats; and the French, West German and Low Country Liberals, with 40) can come to a working alliance, they should be able to dominate the Parliament for its first five-year term. The Socialists publicly refused a common "popular front" with the 44 Communists and their allies, although on such pocketbook issues as prices and unemployment...
DIED. Reinhard Gehlen, 77, legendary German spymaster; of cancer; in Berg, West Germany. The austere, shadowy Gehlen was Adolf Hitler's intelligence chief for the eastern front until his predictions of Soviet triumph prompted the irritated Führer to threaten to send him to an insane asylum. Gehlen fled and surrendered to American forces in May 1945, bringing with him 50 cases of Red Army documents. He later built a network of some 4,000 agents that became the CIA's chief chink in the Iron Curtain throughout the cold war, forecasting the 1956 Hungarian revolt...
...still claim to be the greatest, but West German boxing fans thought he looked more like the weightiest. Muhammad Ali, on a 20-day, seven-city European tour, was so flabby that he wore a T shirt during his exhibition bouts. The champ, now 37, claimed to be "at the most" only 22 Ibs. over his fighting trim of 220 Ibs., but others reckoned him 50 Ibs. above par. In Essen, a crowd of 2,500, who had paid up to $131 a ticket, watched dumbfounded as West German Boxer George Butzbach put the puffing champ on the ropes with...