Word: chancellor
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West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt stood beneath the federal eagle in Bonn's Bundestag one day recently and vigorously defended his relationship with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing against an attack by an opposition Deputy. "It's true that we have friendly relations," boomed Schmidt, "but it would be a great mistake to interpret this, as the French press has done, as if it were a tandem. A tandem, the way I understand it, is a bicycle on which two pedal but only one steers...
Dressed in a blue blazer, gray slacks and a stiffly starched white shirt accented by a vibrant red and blue tie, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt looked the very model of brisk efficiency as he spoke last week with Editor in Chief Donovan, Correspondent Rademaekers, and Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan in his streamlined L-shaped office in Bonn. During the hour-long interview, Schmidt lived up to his reputation as an intellectually vigorous and self-confident politician. Excerpts...
...August 2, a county chancellor in Ripley, Miss., issued an injunction specifically prohibiting picketing, boycotting, threatening persons from trading and "otherwise interfering with the business." The chancellor said he based his decision on a state law making it illegal to conspire to boycott a business when there is no "responsible grievance" against...
...There's no question on Earth that you folks are entitled to an injunction," the chancellor said during the hearing. "You have them conspiring and gathering and planning to boycott folks who have no control over what their boycott is about." Marchall County law officials told the court the boycott was "violent and unjust." Mayor Moore said it was caused by "outside agitators." The injunction was issued Friday morning, August...
...pardon decision was like gasoline poured on those smoldering doubts. The Baltimore Sun called the move "an affront to the principle of equal justice under law, the very foundation of our legal system." NBC News Anchor Man John Chancellor said that he thought terHorst "did exactly the right thing" in resigning over the pardon. Even the Grand Rapids Press, Ford's home-town paper, asked: "How can President Ford clear himself with the public after telling Congress, during his vice-presidential nomination hearing, that a President would have the power to pardon his predecessor, 'but the people wouldn...