Word: chancellor
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...reaction to that reasoning in Bonn: nonsense. Said one of Kohl's closest aides last week: "The Chancellor would be delighted if the Americans shifted to a more flexible approach in Geneva, especially if it brought the two sides close to an agreement...
Schmidt, by then the Chancellor of West Germany and the most knowledgeable and articulate spokesman for European fears of decoupling, saw a sinister connection between the Soviet introduction of the SS-20 and what he regarded as the shortsighted, selfish American conduct of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT...
When conservative West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl wrested power from the Social Democratic-led coalition of Helmut Schmidt more than three months ago, he took pains to emphasize his commitment to NATO's missile deployment plans. So did Kohl's new partner, the centrist Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.), which had been instrumental in causing the collapse of the Schmidt government by forming a new partnership with Kohl's Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (C.S.U.). Now, just five weeks before West Germans go to the polls in national elections on March...
...calling for an "interim solution" that would trim the number of missiles on both sides or put off deployment while talks continue. Kohl has rejected any compromise, arguing that such a course would undermine the U.S. zero-option bargaining position at Geneva. But C.D.U. strategists concede that the Chancellor knows public opinion is running against him and would welcome a more flexible approach by the Americans...
Maintaining the pound may prove similarly difficult. With last week's slide, the value of sterling has dropped some 13% since Oct. 12, when the bout of jitters began. The Labor Party's shadow chancellor of the exchequer, Peter Shore, called the decline "yet further evidence of the failure and incompetence of this government's economic policies...