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...fact, he rooted openly for Gerald Ford during the American election campaign. But Schmidt's discomfort with Carter and his new diplomatic style only explains in part the suddenly acid relations between Bonn and Washington. Last week German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Defense Minister Georg Leber flew to Washington for several days of hard discussion on three policy disputes that divide the two allies. They returned to West Germany in a somewhat better mood than they had arrived in Washington with, but without having resolved the problems...
TANK COMPONENTS. In 1974 former Defense Secretary'James Schlesinger and Defense Minister Leber agreed that there should be fair competition between the West Germans' Leopard II battle-tank prototype and the Americans' XM-1; if the Leopard won the competition, the U.S. would also accept it as its major armored vehicle for the mid-1980s. The decision was hailed as an important step toward equipment standardization within NATO-until U.S. military pride and industry pressure opposed it. As a compromise, Schlesinger's successor, Donald Rumsfeld, worked out an agreement in principle with the Germans to make...
...William O. Douglas should resign his seat [April 7]? Throughout my entire lifetime he has been the voice of the people-the maverick who stood up for the underdog. I have no doubt that he is still the capable and forward-thinking jurist that he has always been. Janice Leber North Hollywood, Calif...
Eventually, Lufthansa-or the West German government, which owns 74% of its stock-paid $5,000,000. "Had it been only the plane, I wouldn't have given a penny," said West German Transport Minister Georg Leber afterward. By paying the blackmail, though, Leber had established a rather ominous precedent...
...enough in the narrow, 110-yd. corridor of no man's land between East and West Berlin. Countless Adolf Hitler squares or streets in German cities and towns have been renamed, often in honor of such heroes of the plots to overthrow him as Klaus von Stauffenberg, Julius Leber and Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Adolf, once a popular name, is seldom bestowed on German children today. About the only lasting memento is the 1,800 miles of modern autobahnen Hitler built, but even these highways have been broadened, resurfaced and extended beyond recognition...