Word: scheele
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special friend of pretension," Walter Scheel once said. Indeed he is not. He arrived in Moscow three weeks ago wearing a rumpled sports coat, striped shirt and red tie. He puffed on his Montecristo No. 1 cigars steadily throughout the twelve days of negotiations. One night he went on a tour of Moscow nightspots, ending up at the Slavyansky Bazar, a haunt of young Russians, where he danced exuberantly with bemused Russian girls. Certainly he represents a new school of diplomacy, whose members believe in direct and candid contact. To traditionalists he may appear frivolous, if not downright reckless...
...charge is not easy to deny, for Scheel does indeed seem to relish playing the clown. A few days before he was to leave for Moscow, Scheel named his newborn daughter Andrea after none other than Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Then, in a balancing act, he gave the baby the middle name Gwendolyn because she was born on July 21, the day negotiations began for Britain's Common Market entry. Scheel's friends insist that his manner is deceptive. Says one: "He has a Rhinelander's way of being outwardly charming, obliging and serene. But behind...
Once when he was chided for not being hard enough, Scheel replied: "What is hardness? Isn't it perhaps more important that a person achieve in the end what he sets out to do? And most of the time I've succeeded...
...Scheel was born in the cutlery town of Solingen in the Ruhr 51 years ago. The son of a wheel maker, he grew up to become a Luftwaffe pilot, a steel-factory superintendent and a politician. As leader of the left wing of the small Free Democratic Party, he served five years as Development Aid Minister through two governments; his staying power was such that he dubbed himself "the Mikoyan of the F.D.P." It was he who led the F.D.P. to flip-flop from right to left, and was instrumental in forming the coalition that brought Willy Brandt...
...relations with the Communist regimes to the east. Lately, the tempo has increased. Last week West German diplomats were in Warsaw for the fifth round of talks about Bonn's recognition of the Oder-Neisse Line as Poland's western border. This week Foreign Minister Walter Scheel is due in Moscow to continue-and possibly conclude-negotiations with the Soviet Union over a mutual renunciation-of-force agreement. Paris, London and Washington have all supported Bonn's initiatives-notwithstanding South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's charge last week that Brandt was moving toward a "one-sided...