Word: chancellor
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...alike have dubbed her the "Iron Lady," but who knew that PM also stood for perfect marksman? Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was taking no flak last week as she fired a round from a Challenger tank at the NATO training ground near Fallingbostel, West Germany. She and West German + Chancellor Helmut Kohl were making their first joint visit to British forces stationed in the area. Decked out in stout walking shoes, flowing scarf and goggles, Thatcher looked like a "cross between Isadora Duncan and Lawrence of Arabia," as the Daily Telegraph affectionately put it. With the help...
...African iron and steel and Krugerrands, as proposed at a summit in the Hague three months ago. But the foreign ministers rejected the most serious proposal of all, a ban on the import of South African coal, as a result of strenuous opposition from the West German government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl. That decision effectively reduced by two-thirds the impact of measures considered at the meeting...
After engineers threw up their hands, the chancellor directed the $2.5 million the legislature appropriated to fix the bricks in 1980 used to complete two unfinished floors, repair the elevators, put a roof over the entrance to protect scholars heads and replace the chainlink fence and saw-horses, aimed at keeping students at a safe distance from the building, with shrubbery...
Helmut Schmidt served West Germany as both Finance and Defense Minister and, from 1974 to 1982, as Chancellor. Supercompetent, superconfident and supercritical, Schmidt is a gifted orator whose acerbic wit earned him the nickname "Schmidt...
Schmidt, 67, is not running in next January's parliamentary elections, and last week he bade farewell to politics with a two-hour speech in the Bundestag. Even in his farewell address, he got in a few glancing blows. Schmidt blasted Chancellor Helmut Kohl for following U.S. policy too slavishly, saying, "The Federal Republic must remain the friend and partner of the United States, but not a client...