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...most of the world. People who watch such things closely noted that as gray-haired, gray-suited Otto Winzer, the East German Foreign Minister, was led to his seat by the U.N. Chief of Protocol, there were 15 seconds of applause. A minute later, West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel was given 32 seconds of cheers and clapping. The two diplomats later posed politely together for the cameras...
...billion annually. "The goal was to achieve monetary and economic union by 1980," says a West German official. "Now, seven years from that goal, where are we? The British and the Germans are paying for French agriculture. That is all -and not enough." Remarked German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel last week: "This objective [of union by 1980] will never be achieved if each of the interested parties says: 'L'Europe...
...saying whether the French would be any more eager to put Paris on the line for Berlin. At any rate Europeans are anxious to have assurances of a U.S. nuclear umbrella. It was partly to allay that anxiety that Washington invited West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel to Washington last week for hastily arranged talks with Nixon and Kissinger. Scheel presumably re-emphasized German fears that the Nixon-Brezhnev agreement robs NATO of nuclear credibility and opens the door to Soviet blackmail...
Brandt's Social Democrats drew a decisive 45.9% of the popular vote, and probably 230 of the Bundestag's 496 seats. The Social Democrats' coalition partners, the Free Democrats, led by Foreign Minister Walter Scheel, won another 8.4% of the vote and 42 seats to give the government a working majority of 48. Barzel's opposition Christian Democratic Party and its ally, the Bavarian Christian Social Union of Franz Josef Strauss, drew a total of 44.8% of the vote and 224 seats (the remaining 1% of the popular vote was distributed among 5 other splinter parties...
West Germany's election is a year ahead of schedule, and was called as a last resort to break a paralyzing tie vote in the Bundestag. There, Brandt and his coalition partners, the Free Democrats, led by Walter Scheel, could command only 248 votes-exactly the same number mustered by Barzel and his allies, the Christian Social Union, which flourishes in Bavaria under Franz Josef Strauss. Originally, Brandt had enjoyed a 254-242 margin; the gradual defection of six Bundestag members, however, reduced that to a tie. Brandt, in consequence, could no longer govern or even get his budget...