Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as they prepare to receive the U.S. Secretary of State on his first official visit to Moscow, Kremlin leaders fume as they hear yet another rhetorical outpouring about human rights from Washington. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, angered by a hard new U.S. stand on economic, nuclear and defense issues, struggles to understand the complex personality of the evangelist in the White House. Israelis and Arabs wonder what the President means by his seemingly offhand use of heavily freighted Middle Eastern code words. Brazil's prickly military leaders-along with other authoritarian regimes in Latin America...
...stimulate their economies rapidly and thus create a market that will draw in imports. Carter took the lead by announcing a two-year, $31 billion program to speed up the U.S. economy, and Mondale pressed the Germans and Japanese to follow that example. But West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who reflects his country's historic fear of inflation, opposes heating up his economy too quickly. Carter is expected to renew the plea, but gingerly. Says one White House adviser: "We've made our point and we'll make it again. But we're not going...
...legally questionable acts evoked memories of Nixon-era plumbers and led many Germans to wonder whether the Verfassungsschutz, which is roughly equivalent to the FBI, was functioning in a high-handed style reminiscent of the Hitler era. Der Spiegel's disclosure that an expert picklock from Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's federal intelligence service had helped in the break-in enhanced the impression of a "Watergate am Rhine...
...rising sales taxes. In Italy, unions are threatening to block any further progress on Premier Giulio Andreotti's austerity plan. Even in West Germany, normally a bastion of labor harmony, Trade Union Chief Heinz Oskar Vetter warned that "the honeymoon is over" with the government of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt...
...because they were black? What of the Chinese women working as cheap imported labor (under the whip) at railroad sites at that time? How many working class women could exercise the new right of women to vote? These questions are never brought out in history books. As Dolores Barranco Schmidt and Earl Robert Schmidt point out in their essay on "The Invisible Women...