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...reason for amiability is that elections and other political changes have broken up the old gang that argued so vociferously at previous economic summits. Trudeau, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain are the only veterans of these gatherings. President François Mitterrand of France and Prime Ministers Zenko Suzuki of Japan and Giovanni Spadolini of Italy are as new to summitry as Reagan. Suzuki is something of an odd man out; unlike the others, he speaks not a word of English. Spadolini was confirmed as head of Italy's 41st postwar government...
...asked for: life imprisonment for four of the defendants and jail terms of between five and ten years for three others. Heinz Galinski, a Jewish spokesman in West Berlin, described the sentences as "an insult to all victims of the National Socialist regime." Even West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told a group of Israelis who had formerly lived in West Germany that he found himself in "complete understanding" with the victims' relatives...
...decision filled many lawyers -and other U.S. citizens-with misgivings. "Nobody likes Agee very much," said Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt Jr. "But in its haste to punish Agee, the court wrote an overbroad and ill-conceived opinion." Added American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer Mark Lynch: "There's nothing in the opinion that limits the ruling to former CIA agents. Spock, Coffin, Fonda, Hayden, Ramsey Clark-all these critics speaking around the world could have had their passports taken away...
Faced with the erosion of détente Schmidt is trying to strengthen his country's already formidable defenses-its 340,000-man army is considered by far the best in Western Europe-at a time when many of his countrymen think that it is hopeless even to think of opposing the Soviet juggernaut. NATO forces are outnumbered by the Warsaw Pact nations more than 2 to 1 in divisions, better than 3 to 1 in tanks and a frightening 8 to 1 in medium-range nuclear missiles. Logistics experts fear that NATO forces would start running short...
...protests mount, Chancellor Schmidt continues to insist that most West Germans back his policies. He may be right about that, but surely wrong if he feels that the currents can be ignored or that in their way they do not reflect, even if they exaggerate, feelings of doubt and concern that are new to the West German people at large. Schmidt's pragmatic answer to his nation's current dilemma, given recently to a Hamburg newspaper, is "no blood, no tears, but sweat." Since the end of World War II, the West German's have shown...