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...Reagan. The summit did serve that purpose. Ford, who is at his best in small groups, enhanced his status as a world statesman last week by playing the charming and well-briefed host to British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Italy's lame-duck Premier Aldo Moro, Japanese Premier Takeo Miki and Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau...
...Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who is Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's chief aide, candidly declared at a press briefing that the amount of U.S. aid could not be determined so long as Italy's political situation remained "complicated." By that, he obviously meant until the role of the Communists in the nation's political life was clearer. Treasury Secretary Simon bluntly told reporters that foreign loans would "require necessary belt-tightening by the Italians." He added: "Otherwise, it would mean throwing the money out the window." Even so, Simon suggested, Italy might be allowed a "super-tranche "(meaning...
Hard to Take. The commotion over the decree indicates how sensitive Bonn's neighbors are to any possible sign of new authoritarianism in Germany. The uproar further betrays a European envy of Germany's healthy economy and stable politics and an annoyance with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's penchant for lecturing other countries about their internal problems. Observed Luxembourg's liberal Premier Gaston Thorn: "One looks at West Germany, and one recalls that this was the country that started two world wars, lost both, and is now 'No. 1' in Western Europe; this...
West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has been particularly irritated by Gerald Ford's somewhat ridiculous ban of the word détente - a policy that is identified with Schmidt's Social Democrats and widely questioned by his Christian Democratic opposition. He must have winced last week as that longtime scourge of the Republican right wing, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, during a U.S. Bicentennial ceremony in Frankfurt, lashed out at the Soviet Union. "We find ourselves faced with a new and far more complex form of imperialism, a mixture of czarism and Marxism with colonial appendages...
...government could try to shrink the value of the mark, by having the Bundesbank sell deutsche marks for other currencies. But with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt running for re-election in October, such a move is improbable: it would irritate voters by reducing their ability to buy foreign goods and add to European dissension. More important, such a move would anger Germany's trading partners. Anyway, it might not succeed: in these days of free exchange markets, whenever a currency weakens, speculators sell it and buy Swiss francs or deutsche marks. So Germany will probably keep on struggling with...