Word: chancellor
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...Spinola had no constitutional basis of power and held office at the pleasure of the group of young military officers who deposed the half-century-old dictatorship last spring. Belgium's coalition Cabinet was preoccupied by the linguistic differences that divide the country. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrats last month saw the party's popularity drop from...
...goods are planning to cut back their purchases in order to trim their own trade deficits. A top West German finance official privately warns that by the end of the year West Germany could start running its own balance of trade deficit. This would create serious political problems for Chancellor Schmidt and his Social Democratic Party. Schmidt is also bedeviled by two nagging scandals: 1) the suspension last week of Karl Wienand from his powerful post as S.P.D. whip because of charges of tax evasion and lying to an investigative committee, and 2) the fact that Confessed East German...
Consumed by their domestic problems, Western Europe's governments are hardly in a position to launch a bold, coordinated attack on their common enemy, the economic crisis. Yet these governments recognize that that is just what is needed. Chancellor Schmidt has already urged daily consultation among the West's major economic powers to mesh policy. President Giscard has called for a summit of the Common Market nations' leaders. If solutions do not emerge soon, Europe could be on its way either to astronomical inflation or mass business failures and double-digit unemployment. These conditions, if allowed...
...Communist, maintained full diplomatic relations with it. The West not only denied its existence as a nation but refused to call it the German Democratic Republic-its official name -insisting that it was nothing more than an extension of the Soviet Zone of Occupation. Then five years ago, Chancellor Willy Brandt relaxed Bonn's opposition to the East Berlin regime, and the G.D.R. began its long journey in from the cold. Nation after nation accorded it formal recognition, until last week the most important holdout fell into line. In a three-minute ceremony in Washington, the U.S. became...
...turns over a half-hour every day to nonprofit and other community groups to use as they please; its seven-month-old program. Catch 44, is booked solidly three months in advance. Even the networks have begun loosening up their nightly news formats. NBC'S anchor man John Chancellor last spring introduced "Editor's Notebook," an occasional entry designed, as he puts it, for "catching up on stories we never finished, correcting those on which we made mistakes, and generally dropping the other shoe." CBS's 60 Minutes frequently devotes time to listeners' comments...