Word: schmidts
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...Europe, meanwhile, the nine national leaders of the European Community staged a dress rehearsal summit of their own in the ancient port of Bremen, a favorite city of their host and current chairman, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. After two days of sometimes chummy, sometimes quarrelsome discussions in the tapestry-lined rooms of Bremen's gabled, 15th century city hall, the Club of Nine produced a three-point package that leaders of the four big European states will offer in Bonn...
...Schmidt is likely to be an equally loquacious host in Bonn. Strengthened by the results of last March's parliamentary elections, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing also has been exercising more clout. The team of Schmidt and Giscard, in fact, has raised worries among the others about an emerging "EC directorate" composed of the Community's two most powerful members...
Indeed, the important decisions at Bremen appeared to stem directly from German initiative and French endorsement. The centerpiece of the discussions was the new European monetary system, a Schmidt brainchild first brought up at a Community summit at Copenhagen last April and approved in principle by Giscard at a meeting with the West German leader in Hamburg two weeks...
...Lucille E. Schmidt...
...life. "I have this compulsion to see what my potential is. I don't do it for anyone else. I do it for myself." Luesing will never make the Olympics, but her feelings, and those of thousands like her, parallel the thoughts of someone who has: Kate Schmidt, 24, who took a bronze medal in the javelin in Montreal. Says she: "I love to see myself getting strong, being competent and taking care of myself. That's probably the most motivating part of being an athlete...