Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upon in advance to preclude the possibility of failure. The alternative was "Geneva Down": an unfocused, probably contentious conference at which even basic procedures would be subject to intense wrangling. At week's end Foreign Minister Dayan flew to West Germany for a scheduled round of talks with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government. Across the Middle East, rumors rebounded that he might meet there with Egyptian diplomats-or, possibly, even go later to neutral Rumania for a conference with his Cairo counterpart, acting Foreign Minister Butros Ghali...
...plane back in time for the Monday newscast. "We were sunk by a goddam jet," grumbled a producer at NBC. (The network got to Sadat only in time for the following night's broadcast.) NBC did manage a satellite conversation on Monday between Begin and Anchorman John Chancellor, taped only minutes after the Israeli had finished with Cronkite. NBC had to borrow the same hotel room and satellite lines that CBS had arranged for. Sniffs a CBS spokeswoman: "We didn't even charge them for the room...
...World War II), president of the World Bank, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, and adviser to seven Presidents, received the institute's third Statesman-Humanist Award-which puts him in good company. The first two winners: Jean Monnet, architect of Europe's Common Market, and former German Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Willy Brandt. As old friends Henry Kissinger, McGeorge Bundy and Robert Anderson, chairman of the institute, listened, McCloy insisted modestly that his career has been marked "more by its length than its height." He is in fact still busy, helping push the Panama Canal treaty...
DIED. Kurt von Schuschnigg, 79, Austria's autocratic Chancellor before annexation by Hitler's Germany in 1938; of pneumonia; near Innsbruck. Taking power in 1934, he suppressed the Communist and Social Democratic parties but then came under growing pressure from the Nazis for Anschluss, or union. After spending the war years as a Nazi prisoner, he taught political science at St. Louis University for two decades and returned to Austria...
...former movie actor who is the video expert for the Red Army gang, the Dutch had managed a feat that has so far eluded a whole army of German policemen. After Schleyer's body was found in the trunk of an abandoned car last month, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ordered up his country's biggest postwar man hunt to track down the 16 Red Army gang members suspected of involvement in kidnaping and murder. Some 80,000 policemen have been thrown into the search-manning roadblocks, border crossings and airports all over Germany, as well as raiding...