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After the President's Versailles trip had been expanded to include "unofficial" stops in Italy and Britain, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt made it clear that his government would feel slighted if Reagan bypassed Bonn. Secretary of State Alexander Haig was not only sensitive to Schmidt's concerns, he was anxious to have Reagan attend a NATO meeting. Haig helped arrange the shift of a proposed NATO summit from Brussels to Bonn and persuaded the White House to add the Federal Republic's capital to the President's itinerary...
Franz Josef Strauss, 66, Minister-President,of the West German state of Bavaria, Finance Minister of West Germany from 1966 to 1969 and conservative candidate who lost to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt...
...Bonn, a West German government spokesman declared his Cabinet's "dismay" at the toll of human life in the South Atlantic; Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was widely reported to have told the Cabinet that "there can be no blank check of solidarity with Britain." In Paris, the Socialist government of President François Mitterrand stated its "consternation" over the widening hostilities, and the French Council of Ministers called for a U.N.-negotiated settlement. The Italian government was more circumspect in its pronouncements, but popular pressure for a rethinking of all-out support for Britain was increasing; one reason...
...DIED. Helmut Dantine, 64, Austrian-born actor whose greatest fame in a 40-year career came in vintage World War II movies (Mrs. Miniver, Casablanca, Edge of Darkness), playing Nazis of all shades from quasi sympathetic to ultrasadistic; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...seemed strangely antiseptic for an occasion so potentially fraught with drama. For its first national congress in more than two years, West Germany's ruling Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) had gathered in a cavernous 15,000-seat sports arena built for the 1972 Olympics in Munich. As Chancellor Helmut Schmidt addressed the 440 party delegates and the 1,000 observers present at the event, he faced a sea of unoccupied seats, and his voice echoed through the near empty hall, so distorted by bad acoustics that many in his audience barely understood...