Word: chancellor
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...Americans-and indeed to many Europeans-the reaction was irritatingly familiar. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt issued a joint statement strongly condemning the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Three days later, Paris abruptly declared that it would not be represented at a German-sponsored meeting of Western European foreign ministers with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in Bonn. Once again, France stood out as seemingly arrogant and as the ally least disposed to back Washington in an international crisis...
Salant and Small have their hands full, and not only with the Nightly News, which has as its host the literate but low-key John Chancellor, 52. The network's eight-month-old magazine show, Prime Time Saturday with Tom Snyder, is floundering. In addition, the Today show, its once prolific profit maker (a reported $7 million last year), has lately slipped in the ratings behind ABC's Good Morning America, a homey mix of news, gossip, interviews and self-improvement tips. Today's own efforts to be more folksy and entertaining have only undermined its prestige. Recalls...
...Foreign Ministers' meeting in Bonn next week. The talks had been initiated by the U.S. The French refusal to participate considerably undercut the impact of an unusually strong joint statement issued earlier in the week by French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt; it called the Soviet intervention "unacceptable" and demanded a withdrawal...
With that dramatic call to action, former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt this week presents his long-awaited report on the Gordian problem of relations between rich and poor nations. With a barrage of chilling statistics and often eloquent prose, the 1971 Nobel Peace prizewinner proposes a summit of some 25 world leaders to focus on "mutual interests in the field of peace, justice and jobs." While charging that the "air is thick with alibis for inaction," he says that nothing less than a summit will concentrate world attention on the "mortal dangers threatening our children and grandchildren...
...least diminished to a drip. As the Soviet Union takes hold and expels Western correspondents and cameramen, expect to see fewer of those distant grainy films of Soviet transports landing, and Soviet tanks lumbering up the road, giving visual confirmation to the anchorman's words. Chancellor feels "frustrated as hell...