Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University officials have accepted invitations from President Bok to serve on the board, including Edward Lashman, director of external projects, George Putnam Jr. '49, Harvard treasurer, and Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, plus Wyatt, Zeckhouser and O'Brien. The board will basically serve as a liason to the University, while the corporation members will be responsible for the actual management, Wyatt says, justifying the fact that none of the board members is specially trained in real estate...
Most troublesome for Carter will be his meeting with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who came not only for the U.N. meeting but also for the NATO summit and a breakfast at the White House this week. Schmidt has strongly disagreed with the President on a number of issues, including Carter's opposition to the international sale of fast-breeder nuclear reactors and Washington's inability to stabilize the dollar on world money markets. West German officials warned that despite Schmidt's warm endorsement at the U.N. of measures to control the world arms race, disarmament hardly...
...face appeared puffy, his movements stiff and his walk halting. He seemed to have difficulty moving the left side of his face and often slurred his words. At times he looked heavily drugged. After a picture-taking session with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Brezhnev tried to rise from the couch where he had been sitting, and his knees buckled; he quickly grabbed Gromyko's hand, drew himself up with Schmidt's help and walked away...
...troublesome tribal quarrel over Cyprus, Carter seems sound in wanting to lift the arms embargo on Turkey. But Congress is mesmerized by the tiny Greek lobby. Carter certainly mishandled the neutron bomb affair, not least by exaggerating its importance. But the German complaints are pretty outrageous, given Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's political cowardice in wanting the weapon without taking responsibility for it. (In general, the Europeans are forever demanding strong U.S. leadership-until they get it, at which point they complain that they are being pushed around...
...that Niemi's suit, if successful, will drastically undermine constitutional free speech guarantees. "I would regard it a very dangerous principle that would hold a broadcaster or a publisher liable for the imitation of what it showed or published in a creative context," commented Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt Jr. "It would be a dreadfully chilling rule of law." In a friend-of-the-court brief, CBS warned that the principle could be extended to press coverage of violent news−hijackings or murders, for example...