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...addition to four formal speeches, including a provocative opening address by former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, the conference revolved around three discussion groups-on defense, politics and economics-where the experts engaged in stimulating, sometimes heated, debate. At a final plenary meeting, members of the groups shared conclusions. The sessions were supplemented by freewheeling conversation over coffee, cocktails and meals. "It's just remarkable the people who are here," observed Enrico Jacchia, director of the Italian Center of Strategic Studies. "If we'd had some more meetings like this in the past, we would never have...
Against this backdrop, TIME last week held an Atlantic Alliance conference to assess the differences that now separate the U.S. and its West European allies. The setting was Hamburg, which, as Helmut Schmidt, the former West German Chancellor, pointed out, is only 25 minutes by car from the frontier with the Soviet bloc and only twelve minutes more from the nearest Soviet armored division. For three days, 45 political leaders, government officials, strategists and economists from the U.S. and Western Europe diagnosed the alliance's ills, aired their grievances and sought to find remedies...
...address, which set the tone for the debate, although it also provoked significant disagreement, Helmut Schmidt mentioned no fewer than eight times the need for a "grand strategy" by the Western allies to deal with the Soviet Union. Like other West Europeans, Schmidt is reluctant, at least for the moment, to accept the Reagan Administration's tactics as the basis for such a strategy. Said he: "The deterioration of diplomacy into shouting matches, the idea of economic warfare ... all these, I think, are characteristic of the political crisis that faces the world...
...quick to pick up the random follies that this Administration has perpetrated and run them up the flagpole. I have the sense that perhaps American policy is not as Dad as many of us say it sounds." Richard Perle, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security, and Helmut Sonnenfeldt, former State Department counselor, repeatedly pointed out to their West European colleagues that the U.S. was sincerely seeking an arms agreement with the Soviets under very difficult circumstances, which were being made even worse by allied skepticism about Washington's motives...
...October 1977, in an address to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, Helmut Schmidt, then West German Chancellor, called attention to the fact that strategic arms talks between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had failed to deal with "disparities" between East and West in tactical nuclear weapons. What he had in mind was the rapid buildup of Soviet intermediate-range SS-20s targeted on Western Europe. Schmidt reminded the U.S. not to neglect NATO defense needs at the negotiating table, but left it to the Carter Administration to propose a solution...