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...holiday stupor like an earthquake. "An offense to the memory of all the victims of Nazi ferocity," declared the Christian Democrats' official daily, Il Popolo. Howled Milan's influential Corriere della Sera: "A humiliating scandal without redemption." A summit meeting between West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italy's Premier Giulio Andreotti, scheduled for later in the week, was promptly postponed, and Rome's Communist-elected mayor Giulio Carlo Argan led a march in memory of Kap-pler's victims...
President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing says that Carter "has compromised the process of detente," while West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has complained that Carter "acts like a faith healer" and formulates "policy from the pulpit...
...himself decompressed from his days of helping run the world. But just another retired bureaucrat he is not. His extraordinary achievements as Secretary of State, the friends he made in the power fraternity, have given him a postgraduate status among diplomats that has never existed before. Germany's Helmut Schmidt breakfasted secretly with Kissinger at a British resort in April. Britain's James Callaghan and France's Valery Giscard d'Estaing both invited him to dinner when they learned that Henry was coming to their respective countries. Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin asks him to lunch every...
Another difficult visitor-though hardly in the same league-preceded Begin to Washington. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, notoriously solemn and often cranky, had been angered by Carter Administration pressure on West Germany to pump up its economy and to refrain from selling full-cycle nuclear plants abroad. Schmidt had also expressed fears that Carter's unsubtle, missionary foreign policy style and his human rights campaign were hurting detente and East-West relations. But Chancellor and President took pains to mute their differences, and both sides considered the meeting "an atmospheric success." Schmidt-whom Carter had called "Helmut...
Carter got word of the tragedy while at a state dinner for visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The President remained at the party. But National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski rounded up Pentagon Chief Harold Brown and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and headed to the Situation Room of the White House to study possible U.S. responses. Joining the session an hour later, Carter ordered that the initial U.S. reaction be conciliatory. Thus Press Secretary Powell announced that "any penetration of North Korean airspace that may have taken place was unintentional and regrettable...