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...Willy Brandt, who served as West German Chancellor from 1969 to 1974, has always enjoyed a reputation as a moody, unpredictable politician. He lived up to that billing last week when he abruptly quit his post as chairman of the Social Democratic Party. A stone-faced Brandt informed his colleagues he was resigning his position because of the "internal criticisms" of his leadership...
...Brandt, 73, who had been SPD leader since 1964, fell victim to the intense feuding between leftists and moderates that has virtually paralyzed the party. The crowning controversy was his effort to appoint a 30-year-old Greek emigre named Margarita Mathiopoulos as the party's chief spokeswoman. Not only did she not belong to the SPD, she was not even a German citizen. Brandt's successor will be Hans-Jochen Vogel, 61, the party's parliamentary leader...
...West Germany politicians are most vulnerable to financial scandals and East bloc spies in their midst. Social Democratic Chancellor Willy Brandt never really recovered from the uproar after his close aide Gunter Guillaume was discovered spying for East Germany. The long-running Flick affair, swirling with allegations about illegal campaign chests and influence peddling, tormented the Christian Democratic government of Helmut Kohl for years. Quips one political observer in Bonn: "If Iranscam were ever replayed here, the odds are that the Germans would be more scandalized by the missing millions and the sloppy accounting than the arms transactions...
...Medical School, Brandt teaches an elective course in medical ethics which regularly attracts large enrollment, says Leon Eisenberg, Presley Professor of Social Medicine. "The large numbers of students are a compliment to his skill as a teacher...
...Brandt's next project will be a book on the history of cigarette smoking, asking why people smoke and how it got to be popular, considering the issue in terms of class and gender. For instance, he says, in the 1920s, smoking was a feminist issue--Radcliffe women rioted because they weren't allowed to smoke and Harvard men were...