Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first that Greece's Premier has given to an American journalist since the military junta resigned under pressure last July. In recent weeks TIME has run interviews with a host of world figures, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Polish Communist Party Boss Edward Gierek...
...University of Texas regents were going through the motions of a public meeting last month, just one day after Chancellor Charles ("Mickey") LeMaistre had fired Stephen Spurr as president of the Austin campus. Student Body Vice President Bill Parrish rose to ask a question: Why was Spurr dismissed? For long seconds the regents stared down at their papers in total silence. "Isn't anybody going to respond?" asked the student...
...travel to the Far East to visit with Japanese and South Korean leaders. During that trip he may meet with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, depending on Kissinger's success in an upcoming meeting with Soviet officials in Moscow. In December, Ford will hold talks with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Washington and later that month with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing on the Caribbean island of Martinique...
...that since the U.S. buys only about one-third of its oil abroad, compared with about 80% for Europe, America should cut its imports by about twice the percentage the others do. This would impose an equal burden on the economies of all the big oil users. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, after returning to London, added that Americans should be made to tighten their belts more than others because they "waste" so much energy. The U.S. so far has balked at the British and German arguments, probably because the American officials fear what a cutback would...
...that the unions are too powerful, while 66% believe that they are more powerful than the government. For obvious reasons, Wilson would like to keep the union issue out of campaign debates, but the Tories may not let him. In a speech last week, Tory Lord Hailsham, former Lord Chancellor, acidly described the Labor Party as a "wholly owned subsidiary" of the unions...