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Shultz may even match Haig's famed rapport with European leaders. Says former Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson: "[West German Chancellor] Helmut Schmidt considers George one of the best friends he has, and has enormous respect for him. It's hard for me to imagine any one who would be more acceptable to the Europeans." The two men have vacationed together at Bohemian Grove, a private California men's retreat to which Shultz belongs...
...Reagan encountered much skepticism from the burgeoning European "peace" movement; Josef Leinen, one of the organizers of an antinuclear rally in Bonn, challenged the President to prove that he was not merely mouthing "empty disarmament slogans." In face-to-face discussions with European political leaders, Reagan reinforced personal rapport but gained little more agreement on policy than had existed before he left Washington...
...problems with Harvard began in 1975 when recruiters used a common room to interview students. By preventing students from officially hearing about Southwestern, a bad image was painted. Moore says, adding that Southwestern maintains a good rapport with the other Ivy League schools...
...head of the NSA, a supersecret agency that uses satellites, sophisticated monitoring techniques and more employees (more than 20,000) than the CIA (some 16,000) to gather intelligence information, Inman developed considerable rapport with congressional committees. When President Reagan was looking for a CIA chief in late 1980, Inman was pushed hard by diverse Capitol Hill backers, most notably Republican Senator Barry Goldwater. Instead, Reagan picked Casey, who had been his campaign director. A bit reluctantly, Inman left NSA to become Casey's deputy. Reagan talked him into it, he said, with "the smoothest job of arm twisting...
Robert B. Sorscher '83, coordinator of the Harvard Radcliffe Students for Social Responsibility, said yesterday that Cambridge has traditionally had a rapport with Japanese anti-nuclear groups have previously visited the city...