Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Germany, a spent and moody Willy Brandt stepped down after five years as Chancellor, deepening the shadows over the future of both detente and the European Community...
Cataclysmic Worries. In their private moments, at least some of the world's leaders might be tempted to agree. Only last March an article in the West German magazine Der Spiegel quoted an aide to Willy Brandt as saying that the Chancellor "sees everything breaking apart." Brandt was said to have decided unhappily that changes of governments had become meaningless spectacles, that real power was more and more in the hands of big corporations and other interest groups. The result could be increasing extremism on both the left and the right. If this went on unchecked, Brandt was said...
...past few months, rumors have buzzed through Bonn that a tired and discouraged Willy Brandt would soon resign as Chancellor. Yet West Germany, and indeed all of Western Europe, was caught by surprise last week when the 60-year-old leader abruptly announced that he was leaving office. The ostensible cause of his resignation was the scandal that followed last month's arrest of Günter Guillaume, a close personal aide who confessed to being an East German spy. (TIME...
Brandt's enemies, especially his Christian Democratic rivals, have already pounced on Guillaume's exposure to attack the Chancellor, calling Guillaume "the most important and best-placed agent" yet uncovered. At the very least, the incident underlined Bonn's status as the espionage capital of the Western world. German and Allied intelligence sources estimate that there are some 15,000 Communist spies in West Germany. Over the years, West German counter-intelligence has uncovered hundreds of spies, including members of the Bundestag, senior government officials, and even key agents in West Germany's own intelligence service...
...breath-stopping ride. Among the passengers are George, an absent-minded professor of moral philosophy absorbed in his upcoming lecture billed "Man-Good, Bad or Indifferent?"; his ex-showgirl-songstress wife Dotty; and her psychiatrist lover, Sir Archibald Jumper, who is the vice chancellor and pragmatic villain of the college where George teaches. More bizarre companions include George's secretary, who likes to striptease while swinging by her teeth from a chandelier; a troupe of yellow-clad acrobats ("a mixture of the more philosophical members of the university gymnastics team and the more gymnastic members of the philosophy school...