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...addition to four formal speeches, including a provocative opening address by former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, the conference revolved around three discussion groups-on defense, politics and economics-where the experts engaged in stimulating, sometimes heated, debate. At a final plenary meeting, members of the groups shared conclusions. The sessions were supplemented by freewheeling conversation over coffee, cocktails and meals. "It's just remarkable the people who are here," observed Enrico Jacchia, director of the Italian Center of Strategic Studies. "If we'd had some more meetings like this in the past, we would never have...
Against this backdrop, TIME last week held an Atlantic Alliance conference to assess the differences that now separate the U.S. and its West European allies. The setting was Hamburg, which, as Helmut Schmidt, the former West German Chancellor, pointed out, is only 25 minutes by car from the frontier with the Soviet bloc and only twelve minutes more from the nearest Soviet armored division. For three days, 45 political leaders, government officials, strategists and economists from the U.S. and Western Europe diagnosed the alliance's ills, aired their grievances and sought to find remedies...
...address, which set the tone for the debate, although it also provoked significant disagreement, Helmut Schmidt mentioned no fewer than eight times the need for a "grand strategy" by the Western allies to deal with the Soviet Union. Like other West Europeans, Schmidt is reluctant, at least for the moment, to accept the Reagan Administration's tactics as the basis for such a strategy. Said he: "The deterioration of diplomacy into shouting matches, the idea of economic warfare ... all these, I think, are characteristic of the political crisis that faces the world...
Contrary to city officials' expectations, residences bought through the Cambridge Option Plan (COP) comprised only 1.26 percent of the total sales during the period it was in operation, said a letter from Robin Schmidt, vice-president for government and community affairs...
...Schmidt added that the average price of houses purchased under COP was $143,000, a figure "significantly above the level which would seriously impinge on the low and moderate income market...