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Even if the charge were true, that would not explain why Giscard failed to consult with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, his closest friend among the leaders of the alliance. Not until a few hours before he took off for Warsaw did Giscard telephone Schmidt. (Thatcher and Carter, by contrast, received laconic messages.) "The conversation was not warm," reported a chancellery aide Added a Foreign Ministry official: "We were hoodwinked...
News of the Brezhnev-Giscard parley, to be held in Poland with Polish Communist Leader Edward Gierek as host, surprised and confounded many Western diplomats. West German officials, perhaps piqued because Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had been upstaged by Giscard, regarded the summit as another Soviet at tempt to shatter Western solidarity. On the other hand, French officials maintained that Giscard was only following Charles de Gaulle's policy of trying to mediate between East and West. The focus of the summit was not disclosed in advance, but probable topics included NATO'S plans to deploy medium-range nuclear...
...hours, though, the West German Olympic Committee, after four hours of heated nationally televised debate, voted 59 to 40 to keep German athletes out of Moscow. Committee Chairman Willi Daume grumbled that "a nonpolitical group has been forced to make a political decision," and he was right. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had made it clear in dozens of public statements how the Bonn government wanted the vote to turn out. Moreover, polls showed that about 80% of West Germans backed the boycott, while polls in France showed 70% opposed...
...Netherlands, Spain, all are voting this week. Saturday is the deadline for a final go, no-go decision. Bonn's move might lead to reversal of go decisions by some others. Maybe even France. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is said to have promised Schmidt that the French would not go to Moscow if the Germans stayed away. Giscard, indeed, could even be trying to play a complex double game: winning Soviet favor by allowing a vote to participate in the Olympics, then reluctantly pressuring the committee to reverse that decision to demonstrate that France...
...London and was warmly received by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. She also talked with Opposition Leader James Callaghan and Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie. Barbara Rosen of New York City, the wife of Embassy Press Attaché Barry Rosen, talked at length in Bonn with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who stressed the necessity for patience in the embassy impasse. Jeanne Queen of Lincolnville, Me., the mother of Vice Consul Richard Queen, met in Rome with Vatican and Italian government officials. The fourth member of the group, Pearl Golacinski of Silver Spring, Md., mother of Security Officer Alan Golacinski, stayed...