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West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt stood beneath the federal eagle in Bonn's Bundestag one day recently and vigorously defended his relationship with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing against an attack by an opposition Deputy. "It's true that we have friendly relations," boomed Schmidt, "but it would be a great mistake to interpret this, as the French press has done, as if it were a tandem. A tandem, the way I understand it, is a bicycle on which two pedal but only one steers...
Maybe so, but to a good many Europeans these days it certainly looks as if the two leaders are pedaling down the same path, if not doing a little hand-holding on the side. Since coming to power within two weeks of each other last May, Schmidt and Giscard have chatted weekly by telephone (sometimes oftener), got together to discuss defense and foreign policy four times, mapped new plans and programs for the European Economic Community, and established a working relationship that is almost as informal and candid as if they were members of the same government...
Personal relations between the two leaders' immediate predecessors -Georges Pompidou and Willy Brandt -were never close and sometimes downright frosty. Thus the spectacle of a genuinely close relationship between Paris and Bonn is both refreshing and a little startling to many Europeans. Indeed, the Giscard-Schmidt friendship has caused a certain amount of anxiety among some EEC members, who fear that the Community's two most powerful representatives could gang up to promote their own interests to the detriment of the smaller countries. Those fears may have been somewhat premature. Last week Bonn shocked the EEC-as well...
Until just before Labor Day, the story in this race focused on Lou Brock and Philadelphia's third baseman Mike Schmidt. Brock was making headlines with his running, but he was also winning games by being in scoring position on second after his steals. Schmidt, who hit .196 as a rookie last year, boosted himself and the Phillies this season by leading the league in home runs and RBIs through the end of August...
...common attitude toward German expressionist artists like Emil Nolde, Ernst Kirchner, Franz Marc, Karl Schmidt-Rottluffor Max Pechstein used to be that their work was a talented but provincial response to French Fauvism...