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...dispute between the allies that erupted publicly last week left officials in every allied capital worried about the future of the alliance. Mirrored in the series of events were the weaknesses?as well as some of the strengths?of the ties binding the free world's major powers. Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a former aide of Henry Kissinger and now a scholar at Washington's Brookings Institution: "The alliance is going through a period of adjustment out of which new practices and perceptions will grow. There is a potential for new strength but the danger of discord and weakness is greater...
...feeble response the Administration received in part prompted last week's diplomatic offensive, highlighted by the Carter European TV interview. Carter also telephoned allied leaders, speaking several times to some, such as West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Notes were exchanged and allied ambassadors trooped back and forth from meetings at foreign ministries. Administration officials, meanwhile, were making little effort to disguise
...union leaders as part of "concerted action" to work together on common problems. Similarly, there are close working relations at the plant level. Organized labor has approached its role, first in postwar recovery, and now in responding to energy shortages, with a deep sense of partnership. Three members of Helmut Schmidt's cabinet are union leaders. Labor has far greater awareness than it does in America of the need to modernize and reorganize to remain competitive. Labor has reaped impressive gains, in the process, and time lost from strikes is the lowest of the modern industrial countries...
Perhaps the world's most successful capitalist society is West Germany. Though the government is nominally center-left and holds minority interests in the steel, oil and auto industries, it interferes little in the thriving private sector. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will run for re-election this fall with a record that would be any other politician's dream: last year the economy grew 4.4%, inflation was 4.4%, and productivity increased...
...West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt denounced the U.S.S.R.'s continued occupation of Afghanistan but stopped short of endorsing a boycott. A top French leader said privately, however, that if West Germany stays home, France will...