Schmidt embarrassed
NZPA-Reuter Bonn Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is seeking parliamentary support today for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's decision to modernise its European nuclear missile force while offering arms talks to the Soviet Union. But he is in the embarrassing position of knowing that votes against the N.A.T.O. plan during the debate on the Government’s foreign and defence, policies may be coming from his own Social Democratic Party. Nine members of the party's 228-strong parliamentary party have refused to approve a"resolution supporting the plan, which the party and its coalition partners, the Free Democrats, are putting to Parliament. I
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Press, 27 May 1981, Page 8
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