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...went far beyond the official statements of condolences that their aides have become so unhappily adept at phrasing. Said Reagan: "I'll pray for him." Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev cabled the Pope: "I am profoundly indignant at the criminal attempt on your life." Dismayed West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt exclaimed: "I feel I've been hit in the abdomen myself...
...fisheries and steel to be delayed as the French concentrate on their domestic situation. Perhaps the election's most significant effect on the EC will be a weakening of the predominant Paris-Bonn axis, which depended on the close personal relationship of Giscard and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The Chancellor was said to be shattered by Giscard's fall. He sent a formal congratulatory telegram to fellow socialist Mitterrand, whom he barely knows, but personally telephoned condolences to his defeated conservative friend...
...vote against Schmidt's party...
...indiscriminate, throw-the-rascals-out rejection of the status quo. On the same day that Valéry Discard d'Estaing was losing the French presidency to Socialist François Mitterrand, West Berlin voters were giving a similar demonstration of discontent with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrats, who had ruled the divided city for 26 years. Tainted by corruption, the city's Social Democratic Party polled a meager 38.4%, its worst postwar score, and down more than four points from the last election in 1979. The S.P.D.'s coalition partners, the Free...
...outcome was a severe blow to the Social Democrats. Nearly six months after Schmidt's re-election as Chancellor, his party had lost a traditional fief. It now holds power in only four of West Germany's eleven states. Moreover, the vote indicated that Schmidt's support of nuclear energy and the basing of new U.S. missiles on West German soil are meeting increasing resistance in the electorate. S.P.D. leftists had already come out in favor of disarmament and looser links with NATO. As the Chancellor prepared for talks with Ronald Reagan in Washington this week...