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...that time, Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, said Harvard would increase its payments to Boston if Fair Share could prove Harvard takes more from the city than it gives back in services and payments...
Foremost among the issues was the proposed European monetary system, which came under the scrutiny of the Community's Finance Ministers in Brussels last week. Devised by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to insulate Europe from fluctuations of the dollar, the plan had won approval in principle at a Common Market summit in Bremen last month, and had been presented to President Carter and other leaders of the industrial West at the subsequent Bonn summit. British Prime Minister James Callaghan, however, remained cool toward the idea. In the first place, the British?...
...toyed with the tempting idea of forming a monetary union. Each time, attempts at linking national currencies were abandoned as premature because of widely different rates of inflation and economic growth within the European Community. The foundering dollar, though, has overshadowed these objections. Spurred by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the Common Market is moving rapidly and seriously toward a new monetary scheme that would stabilize currencies of the nine member nations and thus enhance trade among them. It would also distance members from the influence of the weakening dollar...
There was no doubt about who the teacher was. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, as host and chairman, ran the show with typical decisiveness. Said a top U.S. official: "The man is a born leader." Participating in his second economic summit, the U.S. President was not the dominant partner...
Western Europe. Until now, West Germany has accepted the discomforts of slow growth and high unemployment (1 million, or 4.4% of the work force) in order to keep inflation at a low 2.7%. Schmidt promised to do what he had planned even before the summit: put in a stimulus plan. It calls for pumping $7 billion into the West German economy, largely through tax cuts, and should make his country a larger buyer of imports. Britain's James Callaghan, who faces elections in the fall, was the most cautious. He pledged only to continue his present policy of expanding...