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...Finance Minister, apportioned the seats in his coalition Cabinet in almost the same ratio as they were in Brandt's: eleven Social Democrats and four Free Democrats. About half of the incumbent Ministers retained their portfolios. The most significant change was the departure of Free Democrat Chief Walter Scheel as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister. Last week he was elected to a five-year term as West Germany's President, a ceremonial office with little real power...
...Scheel's successor as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister is another Free Democrat: portly, bumptious Hans-Dietrich Genscher, 47, possibly the least likely top diplomat in West German history. Genscher has virtually no experience in foreign affairs and speaks only German. As Minister of the Interior since 1969, he encouraged modernization of German police departments and established a strong law-and-order image by capturing the Baader-Meinhof gang of bomb-throwing anarchists. Genscher lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, and began a tough program to protect the environment. In an April poll, he ranked just behind...
...Schmidt-Genscher team will differ considerably from Brandt and Scheel in style and policy emphasis...
Deputy Chancellor Walter Scheel, who is Foreign Minister and leader of the Free Democrats, which form the ruling coalition with Brandt's Social Democrats (S.P.D.), immediately assumed power as interim Chancellor. He will hold that office until this week, when the Bundestag, barring some unforeseen development, will elect Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt (see following story) as Brandt's successor. Scheel is also scheduled to be elected as successor to the retiring Heinemann...
...that included, say, Edward Kennedy, Barry Goldwater, George McGovern and George Wallace, each with his own constituency, sitting down and trying to reach a consensus. If they allow the U.S. to take part in major decisions, Europeans contend, the Americans would divide them. Says West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel: "We cannot have Americans at the table. No European sits in the State Department...