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...West German government feels itself caught between Washington pressure for strong anti-Soviet action and French unwillingness to do much. Publicly, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week told the Bundestag that "we condemn the Soviet intervention" but also that "we must, with steadiness, consider our German and Western interests." Privately, he sighed to aides: "When you are neck-deep in manure, you must still smile." Bonn is increasing aid to Pakistan, Turkey and Greece, nations that might be threatened by the Soviets. Bonn also persuaded Paris at least to join the other community members in reviewing which high-technology items could...
...aggressor and must be so branded. All Washington's allies, though hesitant about joining the U.S. in retaliatory measures, sharply denounced the Soviet action. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said: "We cannot just stand back and see Russia do what they have done in Afghanistan." West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in an address to the Bundestag, used some of his strongest language so far to condemn the Soviet aggression. He warned that it not only "directly affects the interests of the Third World and adjoining countries" but also "has an unavoidable effect on Europe and us in Germany." In Melbourne...
Moscow's anti-missile drive has gone nowhere in West Germany. In West Berlin last week at the convention of his Social Democratic Party, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said that the Soviet troop withdrawal was "welcome" but firmly reiterated his support of the NATO plan. At week's end the Soviets warned that mere approval of the missile modernization by NATO would kill any chance of talks on trimming nuclear forces in Europe. But the Warsaw Pact foreign ministers wound up a meeting in East Berlin on a more conciliatory, and realistic, note: their communique suggested that such talks...
...Helmut Schmidt, Greg Nagy and Tommy Stefanian...
...decision to deploy theater nuclear forces has been two years in the making. British officials claim to be the first to have noticed the growing military imbalance in Europe; they sent a note about it to Washington in early 1977. Several months later, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt raised the issue in a London speech. He deplored the fact that the "Euro-strategic balance" was shifting against the West and urged that it be restored. Soon thereafter, NATO created a High-Level Group, chaired by the U.S., to study the matter...