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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worldwide debate about the irrevocable consequences of burning hydrocarbons - whether oil or coal or lignite or wood or natural gas - because the carbon dioxide fallout, as science more or less equivocally tells us, results in a heating up of the globe as a whole. This leads to the third point, namely the necessity to put up rather large sums of money in order to develop scientifically, and from the engineering side, sources of energy like nuclear, geothermal, solar energy, all of which enable us to avoid the CO2 consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with Helmut Schmidt | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...international evaluation of the Harrisburg incident, in order to bring about greater safety in all our countries. Second, I will stick to the nonproliferation treaty Article Four, [which states that] every country in the world has the undisputed right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. And third, I will point to the great danger that if nuclear energy is not developed fast enough, wars may become possible for the single reason of competition for oil and natural gas. And I think that the scarcity of oil and the rising prices for crude, which are a menace to the functioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with Helmut Schmidt | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...Third, a number of developing countries today produce their own steel and their own ships, not to mention their own textiles. This has led to the necessity for a rather wide-ranging restructuring of industrial capacities and professional capabilities in the developed world. This process is not going fast enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with Helmut Schmidt | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...ideas about the structure of a federal democracy, American ideas of human rights. Second, we have experienced an astonishing degree of American solidarity vis-a-vis a former enemy over whom you won a terrible war. There is a great underlying appreciation in Germany for this lesson in solidarity. Third, the Germans are convinced that their outward security has been maintained by the U.S. more than by anybody else. I think the American nation does feel that the Germans have proved to be as industrious as the Americans themselves, and that they follow similar economic and international philosophies. My feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with Helmut Schmidt | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...determine where tens of thousands of students will go to college. In theory, there is little that students can do to prepare for the dread day, since the S.A.T. supposedly measures innate ability, not learned skills. In practice, however, more students each year desperately cram for the S.A.T.s. A third of public and private schools in the Northeast now offer some sort of S.A.T. preparation course. Elsewhere around the country, thousands of nervous scholars flock to commercial coaching schools, which drill and review them-and woo them with promises of striking results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Coaching Daze | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

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