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...Israel's Menachem Begin [May 18] who is "not farsighted enough" as West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said. It is the Western leaders who, in their haste to appease the oil-bearing Saudis, give comfort to the P.L.O...
Once more the Federal Republic of Germany is the scapegoat for Israel's inability to handle its domestic affairs. I, as a German citizen, am not ashamed of Schmidt as our Chancellor. Also, I do not feel responsible for what happened in the Third Reich. I can only try to keep it from happening again...
...after the story appeared, April 15, Forman, Schmidt and Allison met in Allison's Kennedy School office to assess the situation and decide what to do next. It was a meeting, Schmidt recalls, to "get our signals straight" and clarify that if Reagan came it would be to the main Commencement ceremonies...
Between April 15 and April 28, Schmidt made "several" phone calls to a White House official in Deaver's office whose name he does not recall, and issued what he said constituted a formal oral invitation. Not just Schmidt, recalls one well-placed source, but "a lot of people made phone calls" in an attempt to gauge how genuine the White House's interest was. At least one participant in the process became quite frustrated, believing that Harvard did not want to risk being rejected and thus held off on an invitation until it was too late...
...last week of April, during one phone conversation with a White House aide, Schmidt was asked to "please make that official," and he did. And three days later came the reply, a "very polite and courteous"--but definite--no. "To this day I am still uncertain whether President Reagan himself was aware of the situation or had any interest in coming to Harvard at this time," Allison says...