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...Schmidt faces his foes
Most political leaders look forward to party conventions as festive tributes to their achievements, real or imagined. Not Helmut Schmidt. This week, as 400 delegates from West Germany's ruling Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) meet in a concrete, saucer-shaped hall built for the 1972 Munich Olympics, the West German Chancellor faces the sharpest criticism and the most divisive party battle of his eight-year tenure. So important is the confrontation that Schmidt has threatened to resign if the S.P.D. does not support his policy on nuclear defense. Though it appears unlikely that he will have...
...look at baseball's Total Average stars in 1980. Boswell notes, illustrates the strengths of the statistic. Slash-hitter George Brett, speedster Rickey and Henderson, and sluggers Reggie Jackson and Mike Schmidt all topped the prodigious 1,000 mark: yet all are vastly different offensive animals from one another. Overrated stars like Omar "The Out Maker" Moreno (.682) and Steve "No Walks" Garvey are uncovered under the precise camera of Totals Average. Boswell gleefully gloats...
President Bok and Robin and Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community relations, both deny that Wilkins ever promised a report. But their denials are also part of the continuing attempts to divert public attention from problems until the people who care move out. Schmidt, for example, was told that Wilkins' comments had been published last April. "That may mean something to you," he said. "But it doesn't to me. I used to be a reporter...
...Schmidt said he believed that only President Bok and not vice presidents or Overseers had agreed to meet with the city council and that the upcoming discussions have "nothing to do with" the city's 1979 protest...