Word: chancellor
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...heated. The country now has 14 operating atomic-power stations, supplying about 10% of its electricity. During a series of recent local elections the new, environmentalist Green Party made impressive gains based largely on its opposition to the nuclear industry. Though the West German government strongly supports atomic power, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt admits he is prevented from moving as quickly as he would like. Says Schmidt: "One cannot simply force nuclear energy down people's throats...
...industrialized world must help the underdeveloped countries climb out of poverty, has been an article of Third World policy for decades. The immediate inspiration for Cancún came from a report published last year by an 18-member independent commission on international development headed by former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Among its proposals: major aid transfers to the Third World; reform of international lending agencies to provide cheaper credit to the Third World; stabilization of oil and commodity prices to benefit the developing countries. The Brandt report also urged that leaders of the industrialized North and the underdeveloped...
...interview with TIME, Eppler dismissed Schmidt's concern, one essentially shared by the leaders of most Western countries, as alarmist. He gave the peace movement credit, somewhat dubiously, for pressuring the U.S. into setting a date for the resumption of arms talks with the Soviet Union. "The Chancellor sees threats where there are none," Eppler said. Like most West German peace crusaders, Eppler is opposed to unilateral disarmament, favoring a step-by-step process of limiting nuclear arms on both sides. Said Eppler: "We have reached a point where the confrontation of the superpowers in Europe could threaten...
...smooth devaluation was possible only with the cooperation of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who was Mitterrand's guest last week. Accompanied by the President's black labrador, Nil, the two leaders looked like a pair of country squires as they ambled along the wooded lanes near Mitterrand's country home in Latche, south of Bordeaux. If they walked with a lighter step, it was perhaps because recently each had cause to help the other. Mitterrand was grateful to the Chancellor for supporting the devaluation, which imposes stiffer competition upon West German business. For his part, Schmidt...
...former Anchorman Walter Cronkite pitched in, as his successor Dan Rather repeated, "to put this thing into perspective"; NBC Anchor John Chancellor worked side by side with his successor, Tom Brokaw; ABC Good Morning America Correspondent Steve Bell co-anchored with Frank Reynolds, assisted by Ted Koppel, Barbara Walters and David Brinkley, in his debut on ABC . They, in turn, called on government leaders and political analysts for help in sorting out the implications of the tragedy in Cairo...