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...official agenda were perennial economic woes, including recession, inflation and rising oil costs. But the most troublesome differences were on an unofficial agenda of international politics, complicated by personal chemistry: French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing feels ill-concealed disdain for Carter, while West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt can barely contain his irritation at what he privately describes as Carter's bungling in foreign affairs. Even British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, normally a friend of the U.S., was not expected to ally herself automatically with Carter on the major political questions. Her views: "Everyone recognizes that Europe...
...were expected at Venice. Observed a U.S. participant: "This summit is not designed to take action." But plenty of possibly acrimonious discussion was expected on the East-West tension that has arisen since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. One point of potential discord was the U.S. worry that when Schmidt meets with Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow next week, he might accept a freeze on new medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe. NATO plans to install 572 medium-range nuclear missiles by 1983, while the Soviets have already deployed about 200 SS-20s targeted on "Western Europe...
...more inclined to see their caution as a prudent response to the changing balance of power. Says France's Aron: "When Jimmy Carter says the U.S. is the world's greatest military power, nobody believes him because it is not true." West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has told aides, "If the Americans want to be convincing, they better reinstitute the draft...
...crisis in relations between the U.S. and Europe, German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher takes an optimistic view of the situation. He has held his office for six years and is head of the small but important Free Democratic Party. It is the coalition partner of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrats. Genscher will accompany Schmidt to Moscow on June 30 for talks with Leonid Brezhnev. In an interview with TIME Correspondent B. William Mader, Genscher outlined the German view...
...policy statement. Giscard, who had long been out in front in favor of Palestinian self-determination, wanted the statement to call for outright "participation" of the P.L.O. in negotiations. In the end, faced with opposition from Denmark and The Netherlands and, most of all, by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, he conceded that such wording was premature; the conferees agreed to use the less provocative term "associate...