Word: chancellor
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...Labor, Wilson has tried to straddle the ideological divide within the party and has particularly tried to avoid any kind of confrontation with the trade unions. In recent weeks, however, Britain's grim, almost apocalyptic economic situation (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) has forced him to risk their disfavor. When Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey presented his tightfisted budget in the Commons last month, he candidly blamed Britain's briskly accelerating 25% inflation on union wage-increase settlements, which are now averaging 30% annually...
Next day about 1,000 U. Mass students trekked from the main campus in Amherst to Boston for a demonstration on the Common across from the Statehouse. Randolph Bromery, chancellor of the Amherst campus, sympathized with the students: "These young people are feeling what their parents are feeling: the economic crunch...
...Policy. In Bonn, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt immediately summoned a meeting of Cabinet ministers, Bundestag leaders, Minister-Presidents of all the federal states and party chairmen. Bonn, like most Western European governments, has long followed a policy of meeting terrorist demands, most recently in the kidnaping of West Berlin Mayoral Candidate Peter Lorenz two months ago (TIME, March 17). This time, however, government leaders decided unanimously not to budge. The crimes of the Baader-Meinhof gang have shocked and enraged West German sensibilities for three years, and government leaders decided that the nation had had enough. They reasoned that...
...grim and exhausted Chancellor Schmidt appeared Friday morning before the Bundestag. "We didn't make it easy on ourselves yesterday," he admitted, to applause from all sides of the house, "but today I am convinced that we fulfilled our duty correctly." He noted that the Baader-Meinhof gang was believed responsible for the murder of nine people and the wounding of more than 100 others. "To have released these criminals, some of whom are still awaiting trial," he declared, "would have meant an inconceivable shattering for our security and our state...
Washington has adopted an exceedingly low profile toward Portugal, hoping that the West Europeans would take the diplomatic initiative. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has proposed that the European Economic Community mount a joint effort to support Portugal's moderates with increased aid, trade ties and cultural links, but so far it has not got off the ground. What worries many Western observers is the growing attention paid to Lisbon's leftist government by the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe...