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Reagan's first effort, a private meeting with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, went badly. Schmidt stressed the importance of détente to Germans. Reagan replied that after Soviet actions in Afghanistan and Poland "you can't talk about detente." Reagan pressed for higher West German spending on conventional arms. Schmidt was noncommittal, pointing out that West Germany, unlike the U.S., imposes a draft on military-age youths. Neither leader was sorry to end the prickly talk a few minutes early. This enabled Reagan to rest for ten minutes in the office of Bundestag President Richard...
...city's contingent included Vellucci, the city council, the school committee and the city manager. Bok, University General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, and Vice President for Governmental and Community Affairs Robin Schmidt were among Harvard's representatives...
...other six, the U.S. obsession with fighting inflation is a large part of the problem: it causes high American interest rates, which pull up rates around the world. At the summit, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told Reagan that "the real impediment to productive investment is high interest rates," and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau asked: "How long can we wait until inter est rates come down?" Reagan replied that he was trying to reduce rates by trim ming deficits and even claimed that a balanced U.S. budget is "in sight." When? Treasury Secretary Regan later answered wryly: "President Reagan...
Erhard Eppler, a member of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party who gave a major speech at the October demonstration, is also refusing to attend this week's rally, explaining that he "did not intend to participate in a purely anti-Reagan demonstration." Another speaker at the earlier event, Nobel Prize-winning West German Novelist Heninrich Böll, will not be present on Thursday. In recent interview Böll said: "Inasmuch as the Communists are controlled from Moscow, their orders are to destroy what is meaningful in these movements by taking part in them...
Others who have spoken in recent years include West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Sen Daniel P. Moynihan (D.N.Y.) and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...