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...year ago, he was on top of his political world. With the strongest major economy in Europe, and a comfortable majority in the Bundestag, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt reveled in his reputation as a confident, politically shrewd Macher (doer...
...longer. Schmidt today is in deep trouble. The West German economy is in the doldrums. His coalition government, which was narrowly returned in the national election last October,* is strained close to the breaking point. Schmidt's own Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) is in disarray, and relations with the U.S. are difficult. Twice last month the Chancellor narrowly avoided humiliating parliamentary defeats. Because of defections within the S.P.D., the government's tax package passed by a scant three votes. Last week, at a tumultuous session of the Bundestag, the coalition defeated a censure motion against Schmidt...
Some close aides of the Chancellor believe he is so resigned to eventual defeat that he may ask for a vote of confidence in the Bundestag in early fall. According to this scenario, Schmidt would lose and call for a new national election, which the opposition Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union alliance would almost certainly win. The reasoning behind this strategy: the new government would bog down in the economic and social difficulties facing the country, and thereby prepare the way for a revamped and refreshed S.P.D. to win a clear majority in the 1981 election, without the need...
...REASON Cole Porter's musicals have remained so popular through the years is that none of his lyrics are predictable, and most of his situations provide some surprises. I Do, I Do by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, is unlikely to have the same success, largely because its authors don't seem to have caught on to that fact. The musical manages to incorporate every cliche ever proposed about marriage--from the shy newlyweds through the crises of middle age to the comfort of old age--without surprising the audience once. Quite a feat, but tedious nonetheless...
...Jones and Oscar Schmidt, is a musical about 50 years of marriage. By the end of the play, you'll feel like you've been sitting there for 50 years. At the Loeb, Monday through Saturday. Curtain at 8 p.m. except on Saturday, when it's at 5 and 9 p.m. Tickets $5 to $8.50, dropping...