Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holiday stupor like an earthquake. "An offense to the memory of all the victims of Nazi ferocity," declared the Christian Democrats' official daily, Il Popolo. Howled Milan's influential Corriere della Sera: "A humiliating scandal without redemption." A summit meeting between West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italy's Premier Giulio Andreotti, scheduled for later in the week, was promptly postponed, and Rome's Communist-elected mayor Giulio Carlo Argan led a march in memory of Kap-pler's victims...
...balloon championships. They competed in events testing precision flying, wafting in gaudy splendor over the rolling farm lands. Former B.F.A. President Bruce Comstock, who practices three times a week with friends in Ann Arbor, Mich., captured his third title with his striped balloon, christened John Jacob Jingle Heimer Schmidt...
...great monuments to Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. "I often come out here at 6:30 in the morning, and on Sunday mornings we read the pa pers out here. It is beautiful. After sup per, after a banquet, I'll bring foreign leaders up here - Sadat, Schmidt...
Washington's most serious problem is with its strongest ally, West Germany. Schmidt regards Carter as some kind of misguided zealot. The Chancellor has charged that the President was much too categorical in his SALT proposals, leaving Brezhnev little room for negotiation. Schmidt further feels that Washington's grapeshot human rights drive may be less effective in helping dissenters in Communist countries than would quiet diplomatic pressure in the Kissinger fashion. What deeply concerns him among other things is that deterioration in East-West relations could jeopardize the continuing emigration of ethnic Germans from Poland and the U.S.S.R...
...decompressed from his days of helping run the world. But just another retired bureaucrat he is not. His extraordinary achievements as Secretary of State, the friends he made in the power fraternity, have given him a postgraduate status among diplomats that has never existed before. Germany's Helmut Schmidt breakfasted secretly with Kissinger at a British resort in April. Britain's James Callaghan and France's Valery Giscard d'Estaing both invited him to dinner when they learned that Henry was coming to their respective countries. Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin asks him to lunch every...