Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Year? I think West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt deserves it for the courage he showed during the nerve-shattering hijacking of that Lufthansa plane. His attitude taught some countries an exemplary lesson...
...estimate of Chief Federal Prosecutor Kurt Rebmann, that haul was the most damaging espionage case since World War II. In terms of military intelligence, he said, it surpassed even the work of Günter Guillaume, former Chancellor Willy Brandt's personal aide, whose arrest three years ago as an East German agent moved Brandt to resign. The key figure in the trio appeared to be a stunning brunette, Renate Lutze, 37, who from 1972 until her arrest was chief secretary to the head of the Defense Ministry's personnel and welfare section; for reasons not yet fully...
...news caught so many high government officials by surprise. West German Defense Minister Georg Leber, whose office had prepared the report more than a year ago, lamely admitted that he had not got around to reading it and that indeed the Frankfurter Allgemeine article had "actually enlightened me." Chancellor Helmut Schmidt also denied having known the extent of the Lutze case. With irrefutable if infuriating logic, his spokesman argued: "How could the Chancellor know more than Leber?" As the initial shock sunk in. the spy affair rapidly turned political. Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl demanded Leber's resignation and charged...
...Chancellor, when he becomes a commentator, aspires to be outspoken-to present a brief as a lawyer would and end "by making a good point." He recalls the bolder broadcasts of Elmer Davis and Edward R. Murrow, and wonders why radio seems to permit freer comment than television. But were the old ones really bolder? Salant doubts it. Murrow, he says, insisted on a fairness and objectivity clause in his contract; he departed only once from this self-imposed standard, when he persuaded CBS's top brass to let him make his famous televised attack on Senator Joseph McCarthy...
...last assignment, fittingly, was as Ambassador to NATO, and ended only last year. Though Bruce was a lifelong Democrat, Richard Nixon named him to head the American delegation at the Viet Nam peace talks in Paris, and later the U.S. liaison office in Peking. Said West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, upon Bruce's departure from Bonn: "If you Americans can't stand Bruce back here again, at least send somebody just like...