Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Deputy Chancellor Walter Scheel, who is Foreign Minister and leader of the Free Democrats, which form the ruling coalition with Brandt's Social Democrats (S.P.D.), immediately assumed power as interim Chancellor. He will hold that office until this week, when the Bundestag, barring some unforeseen development, will elect Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt (see following story) as Brandt's successor. Scheel is also scheduled to be elected as successor to the retiring Heinemann...
...Venusberg overlooking Bonn. Placing candles before its heavy iron gate, they took up a silent vigil, broken only by occasional shouts of "Willy! Stay in office!" The following day, tens of thousands of Brandt supporters marched through cities across Germany-Hamburg, Frankfurt, Hannover, West Berlin, Bonn. Telegrams urging the Chancellor to reconsider flooded S.P.D. headquarters...
...scandal, even though Guillaume had had access to secret NATO documents and other sensitive matters. There were rumors, given wide circulation by the anti-Brandt newspapers of Axel Springer, that Guillaume had gathered data about indiscretions in Brandt's private life and had attempted to blackmail the Chancellor. One such unsubstantiated story: Brandt in the early 1950s had an affair with an East German woman who was paid $125,000 by a West German intelligence agent when she threatened to tell all about the liaison...
...without extensive interrogation. In a national television address, Brandt attempted to quash these reports, but only added to the confusion when he said: "There were indications that my private life was to be pulled into the speculation on the spy case. It is grotesque to think that a German Chancellor can be blackmailed. In any case, I cannot...
...that the spy scandal was the proximate cause rather than the real reason for the resignation. Ever since his electoral triumph in November 1972, when the Social Democrats won 45.8% of the vote and emerged as the Bundestag's largest party for the first time in history, the Chancellor has faced a series of disappointments...