World: The Men Around Brandt

AS a campaigner, Willy Brandt relied heavily on the Socialist team that devised the party's successful strategy. As Chancellor, Brandt is expected to employ their talents just as fully. Key members of the team:

> Karl Schiller, 58, a former economics professor at Hamburg University. Schiller snapped West Germany out of its first serious economic slump in 1966 with his soziale Symmetric, a mixed economy combining features of the British welfare state with U.S. free enterprise. A shrewd campaigner who can explain complicated fiscal matters in a way everyone can grasp, Schiller might be considered for the chancellorship some day, despite his...

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