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...Helmut Schmidt, the former Chancellor of West Germany, will speak at the MIT's commencement ceremony in late May, MIT President Paul E. Gray, said yesterday...
Gray called Schmidt "an outstanding world leader who can help members of our graduating class better understand the world in which we live...
When conservative West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl wrested power from the Social Democratic-led coalition of Helmut Schmidt more than three months ago, he took pains to emphasize his commitment to NATO's missile deployment plans. So did Kohl's new partner, the centrist Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.), which had been instrumental in causing the collapse of the Schmidt government by forming a new partnership with Kohl's Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (C.S.U.). Now, just five weeks before West Germans go to the polls in national elections on March...
...avoid deployment." At a party convention last week, Vogel drew the loudest cheers when he called for a "constructive" U.S. reply to Soviet overtures for reciprocal arms reductions. Still, Vogel has been ambiguous enough in his approach to allow his party's pro-deployment believers, most notably Schmidt, to support...
...Free Democrats, still reeling from charges of opportunism for precipitously abandoning Schmidt last September, now enjoy the support of only 3% or 4% of the voting public. That is short of the 5% necessary to assure representation in the Bundestag. The C.D.U.-C.S.U. coalition has dropped slightly, from 51% to 49%, according to a recent poll. If the Free Democrats fail to qualify, Kohl could be forced to form a minority government. Meanwhile, the opposition is gaining on him. From a low of 30% in opinion polls last year, the Social Democrats have rebounded to 41%. The proenvironment, antimissile Green...