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...dissension that has plagued the government of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and his embattled Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) had reached epic dimensions. For months, the often abrasive Schmidt had struggled to hold together his troubled ruling coalition amid signs that its junior partner of 13 years, the Free Democratic Party, was preparing to bolt the government. Last week, in a crossfire of public recriminations, four Free Democratic Cabinet members, including Party Leader Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who was also Schmidt's Foreign Minister, resigned their portfolios...
...True to form, in one swift, decisive action Schmidt had moved to break West Germany's festering political crisis and shouldered the responsibility of bringing about the collapse of his own government. In so doing, he paved the way for his probable replacement by Christian Democratic Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl...
...addition, notes Helmut Sonnenfeldt, another former Kissinger aide, "he does not engage in jurisdictional disputes. Authority just flows his way." At a recent Cabinet meeting he praised Commerce Sec retary Malcolm Baldrige for trying to resolve a European trade problem. Says a National Security Council staffer: "Haig would have worried that Baldrige was treading on his turf...
...earlier than originally planned, in late 1983. The rush is in order to counterbalance the growing Soviet arsenal of intermediate-range SS-20 missiles. If the missile has a serious problem-design refinements have increased the program's projected cost by 56% since last year-West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt could be embarrassed. Moreover, American negotiators now bargaining with the Soviets over such nuclear missiles might find their leverage weakened...
Other European voices were also raised over the pipeline. During a private visit to the U.S., West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told businessmen in San Francisco that "by claiming the right to extend American law to other territories, [the U.S.] is affecting not only the interests of the European trading nations but also their sovereignty." Even British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose country will not be linked to the Soviet network, has publicly rejected the U.S. stance. Said she on a state visit to Italy earlier this month: "These contracts were made and completed in good faith. If a country...