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President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing says that Carter "has compromised the process of detente," while West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has complained that Carter "acts like a faith healer" and formulates "policy from the pulpit...
...rather relaxed, flexible approach to Eurocommunism. Now many allied governments are troubled by Carter. European Community leaders have sent him a message warning that he may be seriously endangering detente by the way he has been dealing with the Soviet Union. At an intimate Franco-German summit, Giscard and Schmidt discussed increasing their cooperation in foreign affairs, in view of their mounting dissatisfaction with Carter...
Washington's most serious problem is with its strongest ally, West Germany. Schmidt regards Carter as some kind of misguided zealot. The Chancellor has charged that the President was much too categorical in his SALT proposals, leaving Brezhnev little room for negotiation. Schmidt further feels that Washington's grapeshot human rights drive may be less effective in helping dissenters in Communist countries than would quiet diplomatic pressure in the Kissinger fashion. What deeply concerns him among other things is that deterioration in East-West relations could jeopardize the continuing emigration of ethnic Germans from Poland and the U.S.S.R...
...decompressed from his days of helping run the world. But just another retired bureaucrat he is not. His extraordinary achievements as Secretary of State, the friends he made in the power fraternity, have given him a postgraduate status among diplomats that has never existed before. Germany's Helmut Schmidt breakfasted secretly with Kissinger at a British resort in April. Britain's James Callaghan and France's Valery Giscard d'Estaing both invited him to dinner when they learned that Henry was coming to their respective countries. Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin asks him to lunch every...
Carter got word of the tragedy while at a state dinner for visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The President remained at the party. But National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski rounded up Pentagon Chief Harold Brown and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and headed to the Situation Room of the White House to study possible U.S. responses. Joining the session an hour later, Carter ordered that the initial U.S. reaction be conciliatory. Thus Press Secretary Powell announced that "any penetration of North Korean airspace that may have taken place was unintentional and regrettable...