Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chancellor Tomas Rivera shared similar sentiments, saying that cutting the programs would serve to "consolidate resources and academic strengths of the college." Rivera added that no decisions concerning the future of the programs have been made...
Reagan wanted to break the news in his regular weekly radio address Saturday, Nov. 13, to get the issue out of the way before he welcomed West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl on a visit to Washington. To avoid the implication of a political defeat, Reagan also wanted to announce an agreement among the allies concerning possible new curbs on their trade with the Soviets. Accordingly, the U.S. asked the six other countries involved if they would agree to publication of a working paper that diplomats had fashioned in Washington, Britain, West Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan consented...
...Vienna in June 1979, he stumbled and nearly fell while descending a flight of stairs. On his trip to West Germany in November 1981, he was followed everywhere by two ambulances. His jaw was seen to hang slackly, and his breathing was labored. When he wearied during discussions with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, he retired with a doctor to an adjoining room, presumably for an injection. He was even denied his favorite pick-me-up. Offered liquor at a state banquet, he dutifully refused it in favor of a medicinal concoction proffered by an aide...
...somewhat larger than life: he projected a physical magnetism that fairly overwhelmed many of his fellow statesmen in the West. In his second volume of memoirs, Henry Kissinger described Brezhnev's "split personality": he was "alternatively boastful and insecure, belligerent and mellow." Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt thought that Brezhnev was "quasi-Mediterranean in his movements when he warmed to a conversation." Unquestionably, he had a zest for life. Until illness intervened, he smoked incessantly and drank vodka toast after vodka toast without showing so much as a sign of weakness. Richard Nixon was impressed, unfavorably, by Brezhnev...
...sent a respectful two-paragraph message calling Brezhnev "one of the world's most important figures for nearly two decades" and expressing his hope for improved U.S.-Soviet relations. Pope John Paul II promised "a particular thought for the memory of the illustrious departed one." Declared former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt: "His death leaves a gap in international politics that will be painfully felt." The Chinese government dispatched a terse message to Moscow conveying "deep condolences." Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, whose country has received much of its modern weaponry from the Soviet Union, paid effusive tribute to Brezhnev...