Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday evening Reagan called the leaders of France, West Germany, Japan, Canada, Britain and Italy to assure them he looks forward to working with them. To West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt he extended a formal invitation for an April visit, which was promptly accepted. Schmidt, who has not got along well with Carter, said this week that Reagan has "a very clear view of global American strategy." Reagan is expected to go to Canada soon to visit Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. He has already scheduled meetings in the near future with Spanish King Juan Carlos, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
Washington knew all about Tabatabai, who had been educated in West Germany. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had begun pressing Iran to release the hostages right after the embassy was seized. Genscher had his first secret contact with Tabatabai early last year in Belgrade at President Josip Broz Tito's funeral. Tabatabai subsequently, in February and March, made several trips to Bonn, one public and ostensibly on other business, the other secret, followed by additional secret trips by other Iranian envoys. West Germany's efforts were closely coordinated with Washington...
...news from Poland, Iran and Washington tonight." Thus did Walter Cronkite begin his CBS Evening News broadcast Dec. 9 with the story of how Musician and former Beatle John Lennon had been shot to death in New York City. At ABC and NBC, Anchormen Ted Koppel and John Chancellor started their newscasts the same way, placing Lennon ahead of the latest developments in negotiations for the release of the American hostages and the threat of a Soviet invasion of Poland...
...three principles were in evidence-and sometimes in conflict. The 85,000 Soviet troops "invited" into Afghanistan a year ago are hunkered down for a long occupation despite the profound damage that the invasion did to relations with the West and the Third World. In conciliatory meetings with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany last summer and with Senator Charles Percy near year's end, Brezhnev said that he was willing to call a truce in the new cold war and make a fresh start...
Many European and Japanese leaders criticize American timidity over atomic power. They hold the U.S. responsible for slowing international research and development on the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel and new technology for breeder reactors. Says former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt: "Nobody should pretend that mankind can return to nuclear innocence...