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...document would probably have dwelt on the problems caused by high U.S. budget deficits and interest rates. Reagan was offered some protection from criticism by the implicit protocol of such conferences, in which members refrain from trying to dictate specific internal policies to other participants. Neither West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl nor Mitterrand pressed for any direct steps to tackle the problem of high interest rates. "I'm not here to give anyone lessons," said Mitterrand diplomatically, "but the results of continuing high budget deficits should be obvious." Instead, the leaders merely endorsed Reagan's emphasis on fighting...
...West, ideology stands as the principal stumbling block to the adoption of loosely planned economics. For Reagan, Britain's Margaret Thatcher, and to a lesser extent West Germany's new chancellor Helmut Kohl, such a policy stinks of socialism. Yet the "isms" of yesterday seem particularly irrelevant today. Socialism in the East is bankrupt: people are not adequately fed, housed or provided for, Western capitalism seems equally out of breath, insensitive to the cost in human terms of successive crises. The future lies in a break from the constraints of ideology and the embrace of a new, non-sectarian system...
...used the occasion to announce the European recovery plan that came to bear his name. Alexsander I. Solzhenitsyn, the expatriate Russian novelist, spoke at the 1978 ceremonies, issuing a ringing and internationally publicized decrial of the West's decline. His two successors were scarcely less illustrious: Helmut Schmidt, then Chancellor of West Germany, and Cyrus Vance, who had only weeks before left the Carter Administration in protest of its handling of the Iranian hostage crisis...
Just who belongs to this articulate elite? One favorite is Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, knowledgeable, funny and fast on his feet. Of the Cabinet, Brinkley singles out Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. Among foreign leaders, Brinkley and Kalb prize West Germany's ex-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. "He's the TV era's ideal West German Chancellor," says Kalb, since Schmidt speaks English well and can be "irritable and irritating." Kalb also finds Menachem Begin fascinating because "he says what he feels." Interesting historical question: Would the Middle East have been different, at least in American eyes...
...State Henry Kissinger did turn out to be a summit of sorts. Invited by his onetime student, Harvard Lecturer Guido Goldman, to wine and dine the evening away at New York City's Pierre Hotel last week, the 400 guests included such luminaries as former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, former President Gerald Ford, Secretary of State George Shultz and the widows of the Shah of Iran, Anwar Sadat, Lyndon Johnson and Nelson Rockefeller. Asked how he felt about getting older, Kissinger remained loyal to his generation. "When I was young, I thought people who were 60 were...