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...Energy Game" debuted on a Pittsburg television talk show last summer. After Al Schmidt, an MR&A nuclear engineer-turned-energy analyst, demonstrated the game's elementary mechanics, the talk show hosts began to deploy energy resources as their common sense or ideological beliefs dictated. The female host unabashedly declared her intent to avoid nukes, playing right into Schmidt's hands. When she reached maximum solar and coal capacity, she had no choice but to play the purple petroleum cards on the board. Schmidt grimly pronounced, "Contratulations, you have just tripled the country's dependence on foreign...
...been billed as Das Duell (The Duel), and it was expected that the West German election campaign pitting Chancellor Helmut Schmidt against Conservative Challenger Franz Josef Strauss would be a stimulating confrontation of intellects and ideologies. Instead, halfway to the Oct. 5 election, it has been a disappointment, practically devoid of serious debate on the issues and degenerating easily into mudslinging and character assassination. The battle seems to be all over but the invective: Schmidt's coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats is a heavy favorite to defeat the Christian Democrats and their sister party, Strauss...
...pastoral letter intended to be read in their churches on Sunday. Without naming a candidate or party, the letter inveighed against the expanding role of the state, the burgeoning federal bureaucracy and the growth of the national debt-all themes of Strauss's campaign. The bishops also criticized Schmidt's government for making divorce and abortion too easy. While denying undue influence, the church, which is especially strong in Strauss's native Bavaria, thus appeared to be intervening in an effort to shore up Strauss's fortunes. Schmidt was predictably furious. Said he: "Politics from...
...Foreign Ministry expert: "What we saw [in the accords] was a tactical retreat by the government. Warsaw needed to fend off the danger of Soviet invasion and get the workers back to their jobs. Now the clawing back of what was given on paper begins." West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, moreover, had special reason for gloom: both men got on well with Gierek and saw his relative openness to the West as an important factor in maintaining European détente...
Delegates from France, Britain and other countries soundly criticized the Carter Administration for holding back progress on the use of nuclear power. Franz Josef Strauss, who is challenging West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in next month's national elections, was the bluntest. "Whoever fails to take advantage of nuclear energy condemns himself to social backwardness," he said. "The future belongs to those countries that push ahead with nuclear energy...