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Although the Soviets expressed their opposition to this proposal almost immediately, its pronouncement served several useful purposes to the administration's foreign policy, especially as the two countries resume arms control talks this week in Geneva. The most immediate effect of the "zero-option" was to provide German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt with ammunition to use against Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Brezhnev went to Bonn last week with the unambiguous goal of exploiting policy differences between West Germany--the linchpin of the U.S. NATO alliance--and the U.S. Reagan's proposal gave Schmidt the opportunity to reaffirm the common desire...
...prominent West German politician and possible successor to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told a Harvard audience yesterday that the Reagan administration's attitude towards arms control strain relations between his country and the United States...
...tests: the opening on Nov. 30 of the Geneva talks on limiting Soviet and American theater nuclear forces (T.N.E) in Europe, and Leonid Brezhnev's visit on Nov. 22 to West Germany, where opposition to the NATO missile plan is already strong enough to endanger Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's hold on the government...
...engaged in his latest effort to strengthen pacifist opposition to the deployment of new U.S. nuclear missiles in Western Europe, the Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), West Germany's main opposition party for the past twelve years, faced both an opportunity and a challenge. The opportunity was that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party was so badly riven by the missile issue that it might not be able to retain power until the national elections scheduled for 1984. The challenge was that the Christian Democrats would have to contend with the widespread appeal of the "peace" movement...
C.D.U. FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM, the sign read, clearly stressing the party's view that peace could not be taken for granted in the absence of the military strength that ensures a nation's liberty. By the time the convention ended, Leader Helmut Kohl, 51, had succeeded in appearing sensitive to the problem, while reaffirming his party's traditional support for a strong U.S.-linked defense...