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...unwillingness, to match the Soviet buildup in Europe is one of the reasons the Administration has cited for launching a neutron program. In 1977, following the same reasoning, President Jimmy Carter tried to convince NATO allies to let the U.S. deploy the warheads in Europe. West German Chancellor Schmidt, despite the opposition within his own party, at that time privately assured Carter that his government would eventually allow their deployment if other NATO countries would follow suit. Publicly, Schmidt said then, as he did last week, that the production of the bomb was "solely an American decision." But other NATO...
...push their idea of a nuclear "free zone" in Scandinavia. NATO would agree not to install any weapons in the region, but the Soviets remain vague on whether they would dismantle any such arms on their side of the border. Franz Josef Strauss, the conservative candidate who opposed Schmidt in last year's election, charges that Brandt has allowed himself to become part of "Brezhnev's psychological warfare aimed at intimidating the West...
...with Leonid Brezhnev, standing under the Arc de Triomphe at his friend Frangois Mitterrand's inauguration, initiating a North-South conference in Mexico in October that will be attended by President Reagan. Some West German politicians regard Brandt as a possible replacement for his rival and successor, Helmut Schmidt, should the growing opposition from the Social Democratic Party's pacifist left wing force Schmidt's resignation...
Brandt has plunged again into public life at a time when Schmidt is under increasing attack. Unemployment has been climbing steadily since Schmidt's reelection last October, as Europe's most fabled economy slowed. Most important, Schmidt is at odds with his party's left wing, which opposes the government's support for NATO'S decision to place a new generation of medium-range missiles on West German soil to counter the Soviet buildup of its mobile SS-20 missiles. In a period of growing East-West tension, Brandt is nostalgically remembered by the growing...
...Schmidt was privately irritated when Brandt took it upon himself to travel to Moscow in June to discuss the missile issue directly with Soviet President Brezhnev. Upon his return, he spoke well of the so-called zero solution to disarmament, a proposal to have the U.S. agree not to deploy any new Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe while requiring the Soviets only to begin negotiations about the removal of the 250 SS-20s already in place...