Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repercussions from the escapade are far from over. Critics of Chancellor Willy Brandt, who is in the midst of a tough re-election battle against the Christian Democrats, charged that the decision to release the prisoners was a "humiliation" for West Germany. Actually, Bonn was almost eager to hand over the three fedayeen; like political lightning rods, they have invited reprisals ever since the night they were captured in a gun battle at an airfield outside Munich...
...October, School Chancellor Harvey B. Scribner insisted that the children go to Wilson. Some 200 white parents, most of them housewives, thereupon locked themselves into the building, forcing it to close. Equally adamant, the Brownsville parents rented a bus and took their children to class. For three days the whites occupied the school, sleeping on the gym floor. Outside, the black children sat aboard their bus throughout the class hours and then returned home for the night...
...will the larger destiny of Europe receive much attention at the conference. Instead, the delegates to the Paris meeting, like politicians everywhere, will concentrate on the art of the possible. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who faces an extremely tight election fight at home, needs a commitment from his EEC partners that inflation-a common European problem-be tackled by all member states together. He will undoubtedly get such an assurance. The Italians are also primarily concerned about economic objectives. What they want most is a program for assisting underdeveloped regions within Europe's own borders -notably Italy...
...uncommitted. Among them are some of the 2,000,000 or so 18-to 21-year-olds who in West Germany, as in the U.S., will be voting this fall for the first time. The campaign promises to be so closely fought that a single stumble by either Chancellor or challenger could easily determine who speaks for West Germany for the next four years and possibly for the rest of the decade...
Despite a series of blunders that would have finished off a less resilient politician, Barzel began an irreversible march to the top. In 1963, when an aging Konrad Adenauer finally decided to resign as Chancellor and toyed with the idea of taking the ceremonial post of federal President, Barzel prematurely backed Der Alte for the job before the old man had made up his mind (Adenauer never took the presidency). At the same time, Barzel pushed Ludwig Erhard as Chancellor, although Adenauer, who remained party chairman, did not want Erhard to succeed him. In his greatest miscalculation, Barzel backed himself...