Word: chancellor
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...foreign ministers of the ten-member European Community issued a statement promising that the group would avoid actions that might undercut the sanctions imposed by Washington against Moscow two weeks ago. Then, at a summit meeting with President Reagan that had promised to be a frosty confrontation, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt for the first time publicly fingered the Soviets for enforcing the repression in Poland...
...combined gift was the largest single amount ever donated to two educational institutions at one time, John H. Biggs '58, chancellor of Washington University, said yesterday. The trust will transfer $38 million to Washington University's endowment...
...admissions philosophy. For more than a decade, open admissions attracted many talented people who might never have had the chance for a college education. But it also saddled many schools with students woefully unprepared to do college work. The cost of remedial education has skyrocketed. Says Leon Mayhew, vice chancellor for the University of California at Davis: "There are costs in the generic sense of money spent. The other cost is in the misdirection of talents in teaching." While some remedial programs hire specially trained teachers, many untenured-and frustrated-Ph.D.s find themselves teaching basic reading and Algebra...
Take, for example, West Germany, whose government has done everything in its power short of blindfolding itself to ignore the military coup in Poland. Until his meeting with President Reagan on Tuesday, Chancellor Schmidt had never publicly acknowledged a Soviet hand in the crisis. Schmidt has a crucial stake in good relations with the Eastern bloc. His Social Democratic party got where it is by advocating Ostpolitik, a policy that views trade with the East as the basis for an eventual normalization of relations--if not outright reunification--with East Germany. In fact, Schmidt--who was visiting East German leader...
...most is the danger that the West can be deceived by such a false "normalization"--that the free world once again will believe the promises of murderers and torturers. As a matter of fact, the attitude of some U.S. allies is a perfect example of such short-sighted naivety. Chancellor Schmidt or Prime Minister Trudeau will accept every crime committed by the military regime, if it only gives them assurance that "order" in Poland is restored and business can be done as usual...