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...Spinola had no constitutional basis of power and held office at the pleasure of the group of young military officers who deposed the half-century-old dictatorship last spring. Belgium's coalition Cabinet was preoccupied by the linguistic differences that divide the country. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrats last month saw the party's popularity drop from...
...planning to cut back their purchases in order to trim their own trade deficits. A top West German finance official privately warns that by the end of the year West Germany could start running its own balance of trade deficit. This would create serious political problems for Chancellor Schmidt and his Social Democratic Party. Schmidt is also bedeviled by two nagging scandals: 1) the suspension last week of Karl Wienand from his powerful post as S.P.D. whip because of charges of tax evasion and lying to an investigative committee, and 2) the fact that Confessed East German...
Consumed by their domestic problems, Western Europe's governments are hardly in a position to launch a bold, coordinated attack on their common enemy, the economic crisis. Yet these governments recognize that that is just what is needed. Chancellor Schmidt has already urged daily consultation among the West's major economic powers to mesh policy. President Giscard has called for a summit of the Common Market nations' leaders. If solutions do not emerge soon, Europe could be on its way either to astronomical inflation or mass business failures and double-digit unemployment. These conditions, if allowed...
...also pocketed a diplomatic IOU by agreeing to hold talks late next month with Japan's politically embattled Premier Kakuei Tanaka, who feels he can score points at home by negotiating with the new President. Ford extended a similar invitation to West Germany's new Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, who plans to come to Washington when the United Nations General Assembly opens next month. The Chief Executive invited Greece's new civilian Premier, Constantine Caramanlis, to visit Washington to discuss the Cyprus crisis, but the Premier decided it would be unwise to leave Athens "at this time...
Still, Beate may win in the end. She is likely to get probation if she promises to stop breaking the law. Lischka's future is bleaker. The trial, and Giscard's friendship with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, may have built up enough pressure to force the Bundestag to ratify a treaty it has sat on for three years. The treaty would permit the retrial in German courts of some 300 war criminals convicted in absentia by the French, including Lischka...