Word: chancellor
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...Israeli exchange had been elaborately orchestrated. Negotiations had gone on for 16 months between Israel and a small faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Through the protracted bargaining, former Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky had served as an intermediary. Finally, at dawn last Monday, a dozen buses carrying 394 Arab prisoners drove to Ben-Gurion International Airport, outside Tel Aviv, where the men boarded three Israeli air force jet transports for Geneva. At approximately the same hour, the three Israeli prisoners took off from Damascus, the capital of Syria. On arrival in Geneva, the Arab prisoners remained aboard the Israeli planes...
There were, here and there, a few consolations for the Chancellor. One of his coalition partners, the Free Democratic Party, which only three months ago seemed in danger of becoming extinct, continued its comeback by winning 6% of the votes. The anti-Establishment Greens, meanwhile, dropped to only 4.6%, just short of the 5% minimum required to gain a seat in the state parliament...
Although the Chancellor campaigned actively throughout the state, his personal popularity apparently wrought no magic. Reagan's Bitburg visit probably did not harm the Chancellor's cause, but it certainly did not help as much as Kohl had hoped. The defeat also betrayed a widespread impatience that the Chancellor's long-promised economic Wende, or turnaround, has not fully materialized; indeed, in February, national unemployment soared to a postwar high of 10.6%. To make matters worse, Kohl's protege, Bernhard Worms, was trounced in the race for North Rhine-Westphalia state leader by Incumbent Johannes Rau. With his moderate views...
...election-night television show last week, both of the main parties went on the attack. Kohl and Social Democratic Party Leader Willy Brandt, a former Chancellor, broke into a shouting match, with Kohl accusing Brandt of "primitive anti-Americanism" and Brandt calling Kohl "a liar." In the days that followed, the Bundestag crackled with heckling and mudslinging. "This," said Social Democratic Secretary-General Peter Glotz, "is the beginning of the central campaign...
...technological backwater. They hope too that if they become partners in the research, they will gain a voice in Washington's decisions on whether to deploy a Star Wars defense and how to treat SDI in negotiations with the Soviets. Says Horst Teltschik, senior security adviser to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl: "Maybe in joining SDI we can enhance our own influence...