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After receiving word of the abduction Chancellor Helmut Schmidt dropped all other work to take personal command of a special "crisis staff' composed of high officials, security police and crime experts. A nationwide alert was ordered, and Schmidt made a televised appeal for all Germans to cooperate in the search...
...boost and a major expansion program to create jobs. Even wealthy West Germany, which has sorely disappointed the rest of Europe (as well as the Carter Administration) by failing to push very hard on its crucial economic accelerator, may finally be getting ready to apply the gas. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, worried by new forecasts that set West German growth this year at 3.5% to 4% (v. his own target of 5% last May), is in the midst of a full-scale review of stimulus alternatives...
...holiday stupor like an earthquake. "An offense to the memory of all the victims of Nazi ferocity," declared the Christian Democrats' official daily, Il Popolo. Howled Milan's influential Corriere della Sera: "A humiliating scandal without redemption." A summit meeting between West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italy's Premier Giulio Andreotti, scheduled for later in the week, was promptly postponed, and Rome's Communist-elected mayor Giulio Carlo Argan led a march in memory of Kap-pler's victims...
...balloon championships. They competed in events testing precision flying, wafting in gaudy splendor over the rolling farm lands. Former B.F.A. President Bruce Comstock, who practices three times a week with friends in Ann Arbor, Mich., captured his third title with his striped balloon, christened John Jacob Jingle Heimer Schmidt...
...great monuments to Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. "I often come out here at 6:30 in the morning, and on Sunday mornings we read the pa pers out here. It is beautiful. After sup per, after a banquet, I'll bring foreign leaders up here - Sadat, Schmidt...