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...formal briefings; swimming and sunbathing amid purple bougainvillaea and orange hibiscus. This was the new look of summitry as Jimmy Carter met for two days last week on the fashionable resort island of Guadeloupe-a spot that Christopher Columbus originally named Cannibal Island-with French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, British Prime Minister James Callaghan and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. But the informal and even sybaritic setting of the French island belied the gravity of the issues that the four leaders confronted during their summit in the sun. Their ambitious goal was, as Giscard...
...Giscard was chosen as host because no summit had been held under his auspices since 1975. When he issued the invitations for last week's gathering, he stressed the "personal and informal" nature of the talks. He then set some unusual ground rules in an attempt to avoid the protocol restrictions common at such high-level conferences. Banned were all official minutes and tape recordings of the sessions. Left behind at home were Cabinet ministers because, as one French official explained, "they always show up with all of their files." Although there were the usual legions of security personnel...
...however, were the leaders' wives. Carter used the opportunity not only to give Rosalynn a vacation but also to treat eleven-year-old Amy to a Caribbean holiday. While their husbands discussed global problems, Rosalynn, Audrey Callaghan and Hannelore Schmidt were shown around the island by Anne-Aymone, Giscard's wife. In the evenings, the women joined their spouses for dinner; the first night's menu included a local fish, cheese and French champagne. With the four First Ladies present, the summit was indeed, as Carter had predicted, "somewhat of a social affair...
...that it is concerned with "trying to create a framework for wider global accommodation." This, along with European defense concerns, will presumably be one of the main topics when Carter meets late this week with his chief European allies-British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt-on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe...
...band struck up Life Begins at 60, and the citizens of Hamburg shouted birthday greetings to the local boy who made good. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was especially pleased with his birthday loot: a chess set with porcelain figures from French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and front-page replicas of 20 German newspapers dated Dec. 23, 1918, the date of his birth. Before the day was out, the Chancellor attended four bashes and pumped 3,000 hands. "I'll certainly have to go to the doctor," said Schmidt. "Some people put the strength...