Word: chancellor
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...notorious Red Army Faction (TIME, Sept. 19). In a daring ambush of his automobile, Schleyer's three bodyguards and chauffeur were killed; it was the third terrorist attack on a prominent West German this year. Speaking before a packed session of the Bundestag last week, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt made an emotional televised appeal to Schleyer's kidnapers to "stop this mad operation," which strikes "against our liberal order as a whole, against any human order whatsoever and therefore against all of us." He assured West Germans-who according to recent polls support a tougher government response...
...many prominent Germans, life resembled a state of siege. Parties, theater events and public appearances were canceled. President Walter Scheel dropped all appointments outside the capital, and Chancellor Schmidt's wife Loki returned her tickets to a premiere performance of Aida. Henry Ford II moved a scheduled business meeting of the Ford Motor Co. from Cologne to England; British Prime Minister James Callaghan postponed a state visit to Bonn in deference to Schmidt's domestic problems...
Wiesenthal's image in Austria has suffered because of a row with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky over former Nazis in Austrian politics. "Two old Jews fight, and the SS men laugh," says Wiesenthal sadly. He realizes that he may have to be content with what he calls "the biological solu-tion"-the hope that Mengele, who has circulatory ailments, will die soon. But that would not satisfy his outrage that a murderer has gone unpunished. And there is no guarantee that the hunter may not go before the hunted...
...Brecht, 93, Prussian official who defied Hitler in the last free speech given in Germany's parliament; while vacationing in Eutin, West Germany. In 1933, when Hitler made his first address to the legislature, Brecht, who represented the largest state, made the reply. Brecht reminded the newly appointed Chancellor of Hitler's oath to abide by the constitution and the law of the land. Hitler stalked out of the meeting and four days later dismissed Brecht. Emigrating to America, Brecht joined the "university in exile," a haven for refugee professors at New York's New School...
...beginning this autumn. For Callaghan, the unions' actions threatened a political crisis as well as an economic one: Liberal Party leaders warned that they would withdraw their crucial 13 votes in the House of Commons from the Labor government unless it effectively restrains wages. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey and union leaders suggested the twelve-month rule as a compromise, since it would at least defer big wage increases until next year, when inflation is expected to ease...