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...indecisive and unpredictable. The President rarely consults his allies, and when he makes a major foreign policy decision he ignores their sensibilities. That, during most of Jimmy Carter's tenure in the White House, was the plaintive refrain from Bonn. It was why West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, though personally uncomfortable with Ronald Reagan's conservatism, welcomed the change in U.S. leadership. Is Schmidt satisfied now? Well, not really. One of the reasons, paradoxically, is that Reagan is displaying some of the firmness that Carter lacked, but it is not the kind that Bonn expected. "Washington bashing...
...Chancellor's latest burst of anxiety was caused by Reagan's announcement last month that the U.S. would begin to produce the neutron bomb, a weapon opposed by the vocal pacifist left wing of Schmidt's Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.). Although Reagan said the weapons would be stockpiled in the U.S., the device's combination of low blast and intense radiation over a small area make it suitable for warfare in Western Europe in the event of a Soviet invasion. The S.P.D.'s left-wingers are interpreting the decision as further evidence that Washington, despite...
Outwardly, Schmidt reacted coolly to the U.S. decision. In a television interview from his summer retreat north of Hamburg, he said that West Germany would accept the neutron weapon if other European NATO members would, and if arms negotiations with the Soviet Union failed. In private, he gave vent to what one insider described as a "bout of exasperation" reminiscent of the anger Carter used to trigger. The Chancellor has reason to be worried: he has vowed to resign if, at its congress next spring, his party reneges on an earlier pledge to station medium-range Pershing II and cruise...
...Schmidt's downfall could return to power the Christian Democratic opposition, which takes a far tougher view of negotiations with Moscow than does the mellowing Willy Brandt...
...leading Munich newspaper called a public forum in the park to discuss the issue. The main speaker, an attractive young woman, took the podium with breasts bare. Georg Schmidt, representative of the Munich police department, told a crowd of 2,000 that it would be "risky" to prosecute the nudists. "A policeman carrying off an unclad woman naturally would have to touch her naked body," Schmidt explained. "Inevitably this would expose him to the charge of indecent acts." The only solution to Munich's touchy situation seems to lie in the rains and chilling temperatures of fall...