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...Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, said yesterday although Corporation approval of the compromise plan is not guaranteed, yesterday's agreement was "very significant...
...made a bottom-line promise to return the neighborhood to the status quo," Schmidt said...
Take, for example, West Germany, whose government has done everything in its power short of blindfolding itself to ignore the military coup in Poland. Until his meeting with President Reagan on Tuesday, Chancellor Schmidt had never publicly acknowledged a Soviet hand in the crisis. Schmidt has a crucial stake in good relations with the Eastern bloc. His Social Democratic party got where it is by advocating Ostpolitik, a policy that views trade with the East as the basis for an eventual normalization of relations--if not outright reunification--with East Germany. In fact, Schmidt--who was visiting East German leader...
...economic ties link Germany and the Soviet Union, bonds that cannot realistically be broken. In November, 1.5 million Germans were out of work with another 500,000 people expected to be unemployed by next month. Severing trade with the Russians would eliminate another half a million jobs--possibly including Schmidt...
...danger that the West can be deceived by such a false "normalization"--that the free world once again will believe the promises of murderers and torturers. As a matter of fact, the attitude of some U.S. allies is a perfect example of such short-sighted naivety. Chancellor Schmidt or Prime Minister Trudeau will accept every crime committed by the military regime, if it only gives them assurance that "order" in Poland is restored and business can be done as usual...