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...Europe, meanwhile, the nine national leaders of the European Community staged a dress rehearsal summit of their own in the ancient port of Bremen, a favorite city of their host and current chairman, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. After two days of sometimes chummy, sometimes quarrelsome discussions in the tapestry-lined rooms of Bremen's gabled, 15th century city hall, the Club of Nine produced a three-point package that leaders of the four big European states will offer in Bonn...
...Washington, Miller is widely regarded as one of the best appointments that Carter has made. Private bankers commonly echo Milton W. Hudson, vice president of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., who says Miller has put on "a virtuoso performance." Foreign leaders agree. Typically, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who has long railed at Washington for failing to appreciate the dangers of the dollar's slide, feels that he has at last found a firm ally in Miller...
...adventurism possible and helps direct its course. Nonetheless, Castro has reasons of his own for the involvement. To achieve his goal of becoming a hero and leader of the Third World, Castro has returned to his unsuccessful romantic gambit of the '60s: exporting revolution. Says Foreign Affairs Expert Helmut Sonnenfeldt of Johns Hopkins University: "Castro has a sense of mission in Africa. Perhaps it's a sublimation of his inability to do anything in the Western Hemisphere...
Most troublesome for Carter will be his meeting with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who came not only for the U.N. meeting but also for the NATO summit and a breakfast at the White House this week. Schmidt has strongly disagreed with the President on a number of issues, including Carter's opposition to the international sale of fast-breeder nuclear reactors and Washington's inability to stabilize the dollar on world money markets. West German officials warned that despite Schmidt's warm endorsement at the U.N. of measures to control the world arms race, disarmament hardly...
...troublesome tribal quarrel over Cyprus, Carter seems sound in wanting to lift the arms embargo on Turkey. But Congress is mesmerized by the tiny Greek lobby. Carter certainly mishandled the neutron bomb affair, not least by exaggerating its importance. But the German complaints are pretty outrageous, given Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's political cowardice in wanting the weapon without taking responsibility for it. (In general, the Europeans are forever demanding strong U.S. leadership-until they get it, at which point they complain that they are being pushed around...