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...East to visit with Japanese and South Korean leaders. During that trip he may meet with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, depending on Kissinger's success in an upcoming meeting with Soviet officials in Moscow. In December, Ford will hold talks with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Washington and later that month with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing on the Caribbean island of Martinique...
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt stood beneath the federal eagle in Bonn's Bundestag one day recently and vigorously defended his relationship with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing against an attack by an opposition Deputy. "It's true that we have friendly relations," boomed Schmidt, "but it would be a great mistake to interpret this, as the French press has done, as if it were a tandem. A tandem, the way I understand it, is a bicycle on which two pedal but only one steers...
Dressed in a blue blazer, gray slacks and a stiffly starched white shirt accented by a vibrant red and blue tie, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt looked the very model of brisk efficiency as he spoke last week with Editor in Chief Donovan, Correspondent Rademaekers, and Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan in his streamlined L-shaped office in Bonn. During the hour-long interview, Schmidt lived up to his reputation as an intellectually vigorous and self-confident politician. Excerpts...
...Spinola had no constitutional basis of power and held office at the pleasure of the group of young military officers who deposed the half-century-old dictatorship last spring. Belgium's coalition Cabinet was preoccupied by the linguistic differences that divide the country. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrats last month saw the party's popularity drop from...
Ford also pocketed a diplomatic IOU by agreeing to hold talks late next month with Japan's politically embattled Premier Kakuei Tanaka, who feels he can score points at home by negotiating with the new President. Ford extended a similar invitation to West Germany's new Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, who plans to come to Washington when the United Nations General Assembly opens next month. The Chief Executive invited Greece's new civilian Premier, Constantine Caramanlis, to visit Washington to discuss the Cyprus crisis, but the Premier decided it would be unwise to leave Athens "at this time...