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...leaders went far beyond the official statements of condolences that their aides have become so unhappily adept at phrasing. Said Reagan: "I'll pray for him." Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev cabled the Pope: "I am profoundly indignant at the criminal attempt on your life." Dismayed West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt exclaimed: "I feel I've been hit in the abdomen myself...
Begin was on the offensive again last week, recklessly linking old horrors to current problems. He issued a scathing denunciation of West Germans in general and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in particular for dealing with Saudi Arabia and for supporting the Palestine Liberation Organization. Ignoring decades of attempted reconciliation and restitution, Begin charged in his diatribe that the Germans, in effect, were still Nazis at heart and had forgotten the Holocaust and their penitential obligation to Israel...
Menachem Begin displayed his most aggressive streak last week in attacking his favorite enemy after the Arabs, the Germans. Irritated by statements from West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in support of the Palestinians, the Israeli Prime Minister fired off an incendiary salvo. Said Begin in an address to party leaders: "It seems the Holocaust has conveniently slipped his mind. The German debt to the Jewish people can never end-not in this generation and not in any other. Such words have not been heard since the end of World War II, when the world saw what was done...
...news of the shooting flashed around the world, many nations expressed sympathy for the President but predictably criticized the American tendency toward mayhem. "I pray your injuries are not serious," cabled Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt relayed his "deep horror," and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat his "extreme shock and sorrow." Japan's largest daily, Yomiuri Shimbun, said the attack "proves that violence is deep-rooted in U.S. soil...
...good a Secretary of State will Haig turn out to be? Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who worked with Haig as Kissinger's top Soviet specialist: "My guess is that he will do pretty well. He won't see problems in isolation. He may connect them more than a lot of people's taste would warrant." Rejecting the view that Haig is an unimaginative technocrat, Sonnenfeldt says "he has a broad and creative vision and a special talent for recognizing the connection between issues." Other observers, such as former White House staffers and senior State Department officials, note that...