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Helmut Schmidt's Retreat From Power.
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February 11, 1989
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German politics Dangerous dreaming HELMUT SCHMIDT'S RUCKZUG VON DER MACHT
CLIMBING aboard his aircraft in early 1981, Mr Helmut Schmidt saw a face he did not recognise among his staff. "Who is that terrorist?" he asked grimly. It was no "terrorist", but Mr Jochen Thies, a new member of the West German chancellor's speech-writing team.
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