Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pierre Trudeau, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti. A notable absentee: French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who boycotted the dinner. Reason: he was piqued that British Laborite Roy Jenkins had been invited to both Callaghan's dinner and some of the summit sessions in his capacity as president of the European Community's Brussels-based commission. Like his predecessors, Giscard is determined to keep the Common Market and its representatives from getting too uppity...
Germany's Schmidt publicly committed himself to a 5% annual rate of economic growth, even if it requires stimulating his economy a bit more than he would prefer. Most of the other leaders had been pressing a reluctant Schmidt to do more to help world economic recovery...
...while it had been feared that bitter feelings between Carter and Schmidt might sour the meeting's mood. In fact, there were reports from Bonn that Schmidt was in a combative spirit and had even boasted to aides that he had "at least fifteen tough questions I will put to him [Carter], and we'll see how he manages those." The Chancellor made no secret of his distaste for what he regards as Carter's preachy moralism on such issues as human rights and nuclear proliferation. Nor did he conceal his bitter resentment over what he felt...
...Carter himself, making his first trip abroad as President. Foreign leaders are curious about him. To them, he remains an unknown and sometimes baffling phenomenon. They acknowledge that he has assumed control of U.S. foreign policy but wonder if he knows how to manage it. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in particular, distrusts what he considers an evangelistic style and inexperience. "He is making policy from the pulpit," scoffs Schmidt privately. In an effort to strike up a badly needed rapport, the President and the Chancellor will have a private talk during the sessions...
Morale at the FDA is frequently bad these days, and senior positions can be hard to fill. Example: Commissioner Kennedy, a biologist, took over last month, a full three months after the resignation of his predecessor, Dr. Alexander Schmidt. In addition, Schmidt had given five months' notice of his intent to leave. Acknowledges Kennedy, who has developed a crash-course understanding of the FDA's problems: "I am learning that the agency does little that is not controversial...