Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intensified the debate. A straight-A student, Yat-Pang, 18, lettered in cross-country, was elected a justice on the school supreme court and last June graduated first in his class at San Jose's Gunderson High School. Berkeley turned him down. Watson M. Laetsch, Berkeley's vice chancellor for undergraduate affairs, insists that Yat-Pang was rejected only for a "highly competitive" engineering program. Had he applied to other colleges at Berkeley, "very likely he would have been accepted." Instead, Yat-Pang will study electrical engineering at DeAnza College near his home, and hopes to reapply to Berkeley...
...missiles are tipped with U.S.-controlled nuclear warheads. To go along with Gorbachev's proposal, the U.S. would have to scuttle plans to replace the obsolescent Pershing IAs with more capable, shorter-range versions of the Pershing II. The conversion plan is extremely controversial in West Germany, however, and Chancellor Helmut Kohl may yet find it easier simply to retain the Pershing IAs, a solution that might be acceptable to the Soviets...
...pollution but really looking for the underwater feminist city of Vineta. Then there is the matter of acid rain and the death of European forests. That calls for a recurring fantasy involving the Grimm brothers, a host of their fairy- tale characters and the children of a West German Chancellor. Overpopulation is not ignored, nor is the danger posed by nuclear power plants, armaments and the Big Bang...
...executive branch. Recalls Joachim von Elbe, a Bonn legal expert: "We did not want to make the Germans just imitate the American constitutional model but rely on themselves to reform, rebuild and overcome the Nazi period." The framers decreed that the Bundestag, or parliament, could not oust a Chancellor without first choosing a successor. That has helped prevent a return of the political chaos that brought the Nazis to power in the 1930s...
...hijacking of a TWA jetliner from Athens to Beirut and the murder of a passenger, U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem. But when two West Germans were kidnaped in Beirut a few days after Hamadei's arrest, the government began temporizing. Last week, despite months of U.S. pressure, Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced that Hamadei would be tried in Frankfurt...