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Most political leaders look forward to party conventions as festive tributes to their achievements, real or imagined. Not Helmut Schmidt. This week, as 400 delegates from West Germany's ruling Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) meet in a concrete, saucer-shaped hall built for the 1972 Munich Olympics, the West German Chancellor faces the sharpest criticism and the most divisive party battle of his eight-year tenure. So important is the confrontation that Schmidt has threatened to resign if the S.P.D. does not support his policy on nuclear defense. Though it appears unlikely that he will have...
...whose intrigue-ridden political system has produced 41 governments since World War II. Too divided to pursue a cohesive foreign policy, Italy has traditionally occupied the second rank in international councils. No longer. While grass-roots pacifism and economic crisis progressively undermine the authority of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Italy is quietly becoming, along with France, one of NATO's most forthright European advocates. Says Pertini: "We maintain that our country has to make its presence felt very strongly in foreign affairs...
...weakness in the face of those who suppress the Polish people. There are leaders in Europe-I won't mention their names-who, while Afghanistan was being occupied, met with Brezhnev in Warsaw [former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing] or Moscow [West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt], This, to me, was an act of weakness...
...even stronger and closer cooperation and community of views, in order to affirm our presence on the world stage and to enhance the importance of Europe." So declared French President FranÇois Mitterrand at the conclusion of a two-day meeting with his neighbor, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Clad in dark, diplomatic blue as they sat under the crystal chandeliers of the Elysee's Salle des Fetes, the two leaders were explaining the unusual eight-point "Franco-German declaration" that capped their summit in Paris last week...
...distinguish it from neighboring structures other than a long concrete ramp leading to its glass doors. But this perception changes quickly once the visitor ventures inside, in the lobby, students and faculty banter in several languages. Conversations invariably produce car-catching phrases like "last time I spoke to Helmut Schmidt" and "I'll ask Lopez portillo when I see him next week. "The seminar rooms are filled: in one, foreign dignitary discuses the potential for peace in the Middle East while in another, panelists debase the most effective development strategies for the Third World. A building directory indicates that...