Word: germane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would not exclude joint patrols, joint police forces and all other types of practical cooperation. [The Labor Party] has already agreed to U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 for withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied territories. The Vienna document put forth by Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and drafted by Abba Eban is more clearly defined and carries many more commitments...
Foremost among the issues was the proposed European monetary system, which came under the scrutiny of the Community's Finance Ministers in Brussels last week. Devised by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to insulate Europe from fluctuations of the dollar, the plan had won approval in principle at a Common Market summit in Bremen last month, and had been presented to President Carter and other leaders of the industrial West at the subsequent Bonn summit. British Prime Minister James Callaghan, however, remained cool toward the idea. In the first place, the British?...
Another point of conflict was the proposed construction of a new, 200-seat B10 European Airbus, a mainly Franco-German project that is aimed ambitiously at loosening the U.S. hold on the world's commercial aircraft market. To enhance the Airbus' chances, the French and Germans have tried to persuade the British to join in its development, with a standing offer to build the wings and other key parts...
...slow growth and high unemployment (1 million, or 4.4% of the work force) in order to keep inflation at a low 2.7%. Schmidt promised to do what he had planned even before the summit: put in a stimulus plan. It calls for pumping $7 billion into the West German economy, largely through tax cuts, and should make his country a larger buyer of imports. Britain's James Callaghan, who faces elections in the fall, was the most cautious. He pledged only to continue his present policy of expanding output by a modest 1 % while keeping up the fight against...
...Manhattan apartment and plans to settle in New York City. "Some day I would like to play a nice American girl," she says. First, she is off to Europe, where she has the title role in the movie Lulu, yet another adaptation of the Frank Wedekind play about a German seductress compelled to destroy the lives of her lovers. "Lulu is decadent and perverse...