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After the President's Versailles trip had been expanded to include "unofficial" stops in Italy and Britain, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt made it clear that his government would feel slighted if Reagan bypassed Bonn. Secretary of State Alexander Haig was not only sensitive to Schmidt's concerns, he was anxious to have Reagan attend a NATO meeting. Haig helped arrange the shift of a proposed NATO summit from Brussels to Bonn and persuaded the White House to add the Federal Republic's capital to the President's itinerary...
...Washington has come down firmly on Britain's side in the war with Argentina. Mitterrand will restate his support for NATO's plan to modernize its nuclear forces. His enthusiasm has pleased the Reagan Administration, which initially had been wary of the Socialist President. West German Chancellor Schmidt finds himself more sympathetic to the Reagan Administration now that it has suspended its efforts to block the Siberian natural gas pipeline and begun to pursue arms control negotiations. Italian President Pertini, whose country is constructing NATO's first cruise missile base, has no substantial problems to raise with...
Franz Josef Strauss, 66, Minister-President,of the West German state of Bavaria, Finance Minister of West Germany from 1966 to 1969 and conservative candidate who lost to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt...
...Bonn, a West German government spokesman declared his Cabinet's "dismay" at the toll of human life in the South Atlantic; Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was widely reported to have told the Cabinet that "there can be no blank check of solidarity with Britain." In Paris, the Socialist government of President François Mitterrand stated its "consternation" over the widening hostilities, and the French Council of Ministers called for a U.N.-negotiated settlement. The Italian government was more circumspect in its pronouncements, but popular pressure for a rethinking of all-out support for Britain was increasing; one reason...
...still not a good idea to mix brands by trading a Fleer Mike Schmidt for a Topps Jim Rice, but the new competition has had one good side effect. There seem to be good players in every pack...