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Pierre Trudeau, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti. A notable absentee: French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who boycotted the dinner. Reason: he was piqued that British Laborite Roy Jenkins had been invited to both Callaghan's dinner and some of the summit sessions in his capacity as president of the European Community's Brussels-based commission. Like his predecessors, Giscard is determined to keep the Common Market and its representatives from getting too uppity...
...Carter himself, making his first trip abroad as President. Foreign leaders are curious about him. To them, he remains an unknown and sometimes baffling phenomenon. They acknowledge that he has assumed control of U.S. foreign policy but wonder if he knows how to manage it. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in particular, distrusts what he considers an evangelistic style and inexperience. "He is making policy from the pulpit," scoffs Schmidt privately. In an effort to strike up a badly needed rapport, the President and the Chancellor will have a private talk during the sessions...
...were in a position to know." Among other things, Waite adds, it seems profoundly implausible that in the absolutist Third Reich, anyone but Hitler could have exercised the authority to murder more than 6 million people, in the process employing badly needed transport facilities and millions of work hours. Helmut Krausnick, director of Munich's Institute of Contemporary History, has concluded: "The extermination policy was decided upon by Hitler ... The unleashing of the terror rested on Hitler's explicit orders...
...wants them to hold a briefing for reporters on the decision to cancel two breeder-reactor projects that Carter had mentioned to Senators Glenn, Ribicoff and Percy. "It might reassure [Japanese Premier Takeo] Fukuda and [West German Chancellor Helmut] Schmidt to understand that we are making distinctions between our own situation and theirs," Carter says...
...against overwhelming odds. The nation has the most dangerous airspace in Western Europe: 11,000 private, military and commercial flights a day?one every eight seconds?crisscross an area roughly the size of Illinois. What is worse, the coordination between commercial and military flights is so poor that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has ordered a Cabinet study of the problem. In 1976 there were 221 "near collisions"?approaches close enough to terrify those who knew what had happened. Says a senior air traffic controller at Koln-Bonn airport: "It's like playing Russian roulette in the air." The fact that...