Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moving 90-minute meeting with TIME Bonn Bureau Chief William McWhirter, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl replied to criticisms of the Bitburg visit with an emotional assessment of his country and its relations with the U.S. The Chancellor, in his only formal interview on the subject with the U.S. press, was firm and assertive as he explained why the ceremony must take place. Excerpts...
...Chancellor, why Bitburg? Why is it important to you and to the German people...
...agree that a Reagan visit to Dresden would be the most fitting commemoration to the end of that war. Not only would it drive home the point that there are victims on both sides, but that there are also acts of monstrosity on both sides. If Reagan and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl-really want to heal old wounds, the best way to do it would not be by glorifying the actions of Germans and Americans who were killing each other bravely, but by mutual apology...
...clumsy treatment of these deeply felt moral issues began when Reagan rejected the idea of a visit to the Dachau concentration camp, saying that it would be "out of line" with the message of German-American reconciliation that he and Chancellor Helmut Kohl hoped to promote. Some Reagan aides added that, although the President was advised to stop at Dachau, he was reluctant to go through the wrenching experience of visiting the camp. At a news conference last month, Reagan rambled into an even less understandable explanation: among the German people, he said, there are "very few alive that remember...
...will receive the Sachar award, a tribute to BRandis founding president and current chancellor presented every year by the 65,000 member BRandeis University Women's Committee, on June...