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...first foreign reaction came from Bonn, where West German officials announced that Chancellor Helmut Kohl had postponed a visit to Israel. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz was noticeably laconic in responding to the news of Begin's resignation. "I wish him well," said Shultz. "We'll deal with the new government when it appears." Enjoying the prerogatives of the elder statesman, former President Gerald Ford expressed the hope that Begin's successor would bring about "a bit more flexibility than has been exhibited by the Israeli government in the past." But even if Shamir...
...fleeting nature of political power, a subject on which all five were experts. Gathered together, along with nearly 100 economists, diplomats and businessmen for the Vail Foundation and American Enterprise Institute's second annual World Forum in Vail, Colo., were former President Gerald Ford, 70, an Institute Fellow; Helmut Schmidt, 64, Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982; Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 57, President of France from 1974 to 1981; James Callaghan, 71, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1976 to 1979; and Malcolm Fraser, 53, who was defeated as Prime Minister of Australia...
...Geneva, and of a readiness to use Europe as a battlefield in a limited nuclear war. Said the Frankfurter Rundschau: "There have been hints from the U.S. that war could be limited, even if an inhabited Europe would no longer exist." Defense of American policy by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl gets short shrift. Attacks on the Reagan Administration's commitment to peace by top Social Democrats are reported in full, except for a failure to note that former Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was a principal architect of the missile-deployment plan. Led by Spiegel, the leftist periodicals...
...very understandable, resistance in the Administration to the notion that West European political forces should determine American military actions. How far can we let European fears push us? The answer, alas, is quite far indeed when the weapons in question are to be installed on European real estate. Chancellor Helmut Kohl has been admirably stalwart in his support of U.S. arms-control policy and rearmament efforts alike. If some further adjustment of the U.S. negotiating position would help him keep his domestic opposition at bay, then it makes sense to give...
...gesture that caught all the environmental fervor so characteristic of West Germany's Green Party. Minutes after Helmut Kohl had been elected Chancellor last March, Marieluise Beck-Oberdorf, 31, a new Green deputy, handed him a branch from a fir tree that had been exposed to acid rain. With that impulsive act, Beck-Oberdorf breached her idealistic party's agreement against any individual initiative. For her transgression, she was castigated so harshly by her parliamentary colleagues that she burst into tears...