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...source said subcommittee members Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), who appears to favor registration, and Sen. Harrison Schmidt (R-N.J.), against registration, are wavering...
...politics. The French specifically feel that it is more than coincidental that Carter decided to get tough with Iran and the allies on the eve of this week's Pennsylvania presidential primary. Their own domestic politics, however, also play a role in shaping the allies' response to Washington; Chancellor Schmidt must stand for election next fall, and he is being criticized by Franz Josef Strauss, his rival, for being too soft on the Soviets...
Keeping some distance from the Americans is also the policy of the left-wing socialists who constitute an influential minority within Schmidt's Social Democratic Party. Says one of its most prominent members, former Chancellor Willy Brandt: "We must not be more American than the Americans." As half of a divided nation, West Germany is reluctant to pursue policies that could impair the ability of its citizens to visit their relatives in East Germany or that could once again raise tensions around Berlin. In the aftermath of Bonn's condemnation of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for example, Moscow forced...
...meeting that Schmidt was going to have with East German Communist Party Boss Erich Honecker to discuss expanded trade and access by West Germans to East Germany. Another benefit of détente that Bonn does not want to lose is the arrangement that during the past decade has permitted some 250,000 ethnic Germans, mainly in the U.S.S.R. and Poland, to be repatriated to West Germany...
America's allies are apparently beginning to accept this fact, which is why they are expected to take stronger action backing U.S. policies on the hostages and Afghanistan than they had planned at first. Some of Schmidt's aides admit that the original Western European assessment playing down the significance of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was wrong; the more alarmist American view, they now agree, was closer to reality...