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...COMMON MARKET. A BAD BLOW FOR FRANCE. Workers hawked dish towels underneath a sign pleading SAVE THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY OF THE VOSGES. Break-the-bottle games featured images of such popular villains as French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, that advocate of dreaded social democracy...
...inexplicable indecision, the cops failed to close in and make the capture. After completing their aerial survey of potential targets, the terrorists blithely drove away, losing a police tail in the winding streets of Stettbach, a nearby village. "An incredible performance," snapped an aide in Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's office. "The Chancellor is furious." In fact, Schmidt was reportedly ready to fire Antiterrorist Chief Gerhard Boeden because of the bungling...
Every politician has a trick or two up his sleeve, but West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has worked wonders. During the annual summer festival (this year's theme: Philosophers' Reverie) on the chancery grounds in Bonn, Schmidt got a little help from a professional conjurer and presto! levitated a woman. Then the Chancellor jubilantly passed a hoop over her body to show that it was not supported by wires. Why mix politics and magic? Like the levitated body, explained Schmidt, "problems are suspended and have to be solved...
...Schmidt sent a letter to Fair Share saying there was no time on the agenda to include Fair Share's request to discuss in-lieu-of-tax payments. The group showed up at the meeting anyway, but University officials would only allow it to distribute leaflets before the meeting began. After Fair Share left the campus, Schmidt was able to find time at the end of the meeting for the AHA to discuss the issue...
...Schmidt was unavailable for comment...