Word: scheele
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cross-purposes to the coordinating group created by the recent Washington energy conference. Kissinger has known since last November that France was urging the EEC to call such a conference. But when he visited Bonn on March 3, he was led to believe by West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel that the EEC was not yet ready to accept the French proposal. Thus Kissinger believed that he still had time to dissuade the Market's leaders from going ahead with the conference. When he was informed on March 4 that the EEC had formally agreed to the French proposal...
...about as likely as Henry Kissinger's warbling On Top of Old Smoky with choral accompaniment by Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians. Nonetheless, for the fourth week in a row, Walter Scheel, West Germany's Foreign Minister and the leading contender for the presidency in May's elections, was on top of Europe's hit parade, with a song so old and square it sounded refreshingly different to a generation weaned on rock 'n' roll. Within little more than a month, a single of Scheel singing a square folk song called Hoch...
...record was the brainstorm of Dirk Tillen, a Düsseldorf producer who knew that Scheel, 54, was not only a member of the Düsseldorf Men's Glee Club but an irrepressible baritone who would even toss off a ditty or two at birthday parties for Chancellor Willy Brandt. The curiosity factor alone, Tillen reasoned, would sell discs. An added inducement was the promise that profits would go mainly to one of the Foreign Minister's favorite charities -handicapped children. Scheel immediately jumped at the idea, brushing aside complaints from top aides that cutting a record...
With such advice, the Beatles would have stayed in Liverpool-and Walter Scheel in the Foreign Ministry. The German press has acclaimed him for his refreshing informality, while European fans beknighted him the "Meistersinger Minister." Who knows? If Scheel could get together with West Europe's other leaders, even the factions in the Common Market might stay in tune. Scheel could sing, Edward Heath could pound the piano, and Georges Pompidou might even learn to tootle an obbligato on the French horn...
...also served an impatient few months as No. 2 man to West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel before joining the European Commission in 1970. A year later, Dahrendorf shook the European Establishment by calling the European Parliament a "farce" and its Brussels administration a "bureaucratic leviathan...