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...target in the U.S.S.R. with intercontinental ballistic missiles, bombers based in the U.S. and missiles launched from nuclear submarines. These weapons constituted the U.S.'s central, or strategic, arsenal?the triad. Then one of West Germany's brightest up-and-coming defense intellectuals and politicians, Helmut Schmidt, argued strenuously in the Bundestag that America's own deterrent of last resort constituted a nuclear umbrella of "extended deterrence" for Western Europe, sheltering NATO's first lines of defense on and around the Continent...
...Schmidt, by then the Chancellor of West Germany and the most knowledgeable and articulate spokesman for European fears of decoupling, saw a sinister connection between the Soviet introduction of the SS-20 and what he regarded as the shortsighted, selfish American conduct of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT...
...could not be limited by SALT II. Schmidt was fearful that Jimmy Carter would sign a SALT II treaty that would let the SS-20 run free while restricting the introduction of new American weapons in Europe. in order to assure Schmidt's support for the embattled SALT II treaty and to make amends for a series of bungles on other European defense issues, the Carter Administration agreed in 1979 to the "two-track" approach. The U.S. would set about putting new missiles in Europe by 1983 unless it could reach an agreement with the U.S.S.R. in the meantime that...
...nation's 10 million physically handicapped, telecommuting encourages new hopes of earning a livelihood. A Chicago-area organization called Lift has taught computer programming to 50 people with such devastating afflictions as polio, cerebral palsy and spinal damage. Lift President Charles Schmidt cites a 46-year-old man paralyzed by polio: "He never held a job in his life until he entered our program three years ago, and now he's a programmer for Walgreens...
Willy Brandt, 69, chairman of the Social Democrats, jubilantly described his party's victory last week as a rejection of Kohl's coalition, which came to power on Oct. 1 when the Free Democrats switched allegiance from the coalition led by former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. A hometown hero in Hamburg, Schmidt had campaigned hard, accusing the Free Democrats of "betrayal." Kohl was chastened but not discouraged by his party's setback because Hamburg has traditionally been a Social Democratic stronghold. Though it would be premature to judge as the start of a nationwide trend, the opposition...