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Fast Friends. Few know the ins and outs of the Community's problems better than Giscard and Schmidt. The two men first got to know each other at EEC conferences where, as Finance Ministers for their respective governments, they mapped out monetary policies and trade negotiations. They not only became fast friends but agreed on the EEC's failings. Giscard, who detests the pomp and circumstance of Common Market summitry, has tried to set up more informal meetings; recently, he was host to the leaders of the Nine at a casual working dinner in the Elysee Palace...
...technocrat who rose through the ranks of the Social Democratic Party, Schmidt, 55, is only five years younger than Willy Brandt, but his brusque, businesslike style has made it seem as if a new generation has taken over in Bonn. Bouncing out of his Rhineside bungalow early each morning, he likes to blast a referee's whistle as he starts across the lawn to the chancellery. The message to his aides: get things moving. To Germans, he is known as a Macher (doer). He has cut out the rambling presentations from ministers that Brandt allowed and lectured them...
That kind of toughness has won him both friends and enemies. Axel Springer's Die Welt calls him "a right leftist without trimmings." And Schmidt an swers: "I don't mind when people call me hard or decisive. I think I am a normal man." Privately, he enjoys his reputation as a hard-nose and sometimes puts on public displays of toughness to nurture the image. He recently lashed out at some youthful left-wing critics in his party with such vehemence that even seasoned politicos winced...
Radical Chic. While Schmidt has restored a bit of Prussian efficiency to German politics, Giscard, 48, has brought radical chic to France's government. The transformation is all the more surprising because as Pompidou...
Dressed in a blue blazer, gray slacks and a stiffly starched white shirt accented by a vibrant red and blue tie, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt looked the very model of brisk efficiency as he spoke last week with Editor in Chief Donovan, Correspondent Rademaekers, and Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan in his streamlined L-shaped office in Bonn. During the hour-long interview, Schmidt lived up to his reputation as an intellectually vigorous and self-confident politician. Excerpts...