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...presented a list of demands to their editors, but would not make them public. One employee reported: "Everyone is panicking. No one can believe that this is happening to us." Editor Koch's head was the first to roll. He submitted his resignation, as did another top editor, Felix Schmidt...
...October 1977, in an address to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, Helmut Schmidt, then West German Chancellor, called attention to the fact that strategic arms talks between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had failed to deal with "disparities" between East and West in tactical nuclear weapons. What he had in mind was the rapid buildup of Soviet intermediate-range SS-20s targeted on Western Europe. Schmidt reminded the U.S. not to neglect NATO defense needs at the negotiating table, but left it to the Carter Administration to propose a solution...
...meeting in Guadeloupe in January 1979, Carter, Schmidt, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and British Prime Minister James Callaghan examined ways in which to respond to the new Soviet weapons. Carter reportedly proposed to offset the SS-20s by deploying U.S. Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles in Western Europe. Giscard and Callaghan backed the idea, but Schmidt, who by then deeply mistrusted Carter, was at first skeptical. Giscard has told TIME that it was he who proposed the formula that ultimately won Schmidt's approval: a simultaneous U.S. offer to open negotiations with the Soviet...
...Citizen" Schmidt speaks of missiles, peace and Germans...
...role as a self-described "citizen of our Atlantic community," Helmut Schmidt has become, if anything, even more outspoken than during his eight years as Chancellor of West Germany. He still has harsh things to say about U.S. leadership of the alliance. But he remains a firm believer in checking Soviet expansion, and, like his successor Helmut Kohl, he is committed to the NATO "double-track" decision. Excerpts from Schmidt's keynote address to TIME'S Atlantic Alliance Conference...