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Only four days before he served as host to the NATO summit meeting in Bonn last week, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was undercut by a local election setback that reinforced doubts about the survival of his coalition government. After more than two decades of rule in the Chancellor's home town of Hamburg, his Social Democratic Party lost control of the city-state's legislature. Unwisely, perhaps, Schmidt had played a prominent role in the campaign. To underline the personal link between the Hamburg race and the head of the federal government, the local branch of the Social Democrats...
...next five years. Its missile-rattling conclusions made front-page headlines in the New York Times just as Ronald Reagan was embarking on a European tour designed to reassure allies who are concerned about the danger of an atomic showdown and Reagan's hawkish instincts. The disclosures undercut a Memorial Day announcement about the beginning of new Soviet-American arms-control talks and served as an unwelcome counterpoint to a sobering report by an international commission on disarmament...
...Caribbean Basin Initiative, an economic and trade development plan that is currently being challenged in Congress by special-interest groups. A House Ways and Means Subcommittee, for example, voted last week to lessen trade preferences for shoes and rum. The Administration position on the Falklands has also undercut its controversial goal of convincing Latin America that the most dangerous threat to the stability of the hemisphere is the kind of subversion, promoted by the Soviets and their surrogates, that currently threatens the government of El Salvador...
...CONCEIVABLE, indeed likely, that Reagan would like nothing more than to belie his reputation for bellicosity and achieve an arms control pact which vindicates his "build-up and reduce" philosophy. As with Nixon's opening to China. Reagan is unlikely to be undercut by a fatal right-wing reaction should he begin treating U.S. Soviet relations as something other than an undeclared...
...chief organizer of a nine seat effort to unionize clerical and technical workers at the Medical Area charged yesterday that a recent restructuring of University personnel offices was a deliberate attempt to undercut the union's campaign...