Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called red-green alliance could, if current voter support holds, replace the center-right government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the 1987 national elections. The conference voted to allow such alliances on the local level but declared the Social Democrats not currently acceptable as national coalition partners. That left open the possibility of future deals with the SPD. In that event, the fundamentalists, mostly Marxist-Leninists, would make the withdrawal of U.S. missiles a key demand...
...program to subsidize poor farmers in Mediterranean countries. But with the E.C. budget already strained, the Community leaders had planned to set aside only $37 million in aid to poor farmers next year. Papandreou resisted all efforts to lower his sights, including a $60 million counteroffer from West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl...
...colleges and universities, initial reactions to the report have been positive-interspersed with some perceptive demurrers. Chancellor Clifton Wharton Jr. of the State University of New York, for example, considers student worries about future jobs to be entirely legitimate. The difficulty, as he sees it, is "in providing job skills and occupational mobility and at the same time providing a broad general education and doing it all in four years...
...spite of the diplomatic debacle, Mitterrand appeared unruffled at a meeting at the Elysee Palace with West German Chancellor Kohl to discuss Kohl's trip to the U.S. and the entry of Spain and Portugal into the European Community. Asked about the presence of his name on Gaddafi's assassination list, Mitterrand said with an impatient smile, "If some thing happens, we will let you know." Said Kohl: "We will wait to see the developments [of the Egyptian inquiry], and we remain calm." One French official, referring to the arrest of the Libyan assassination team, down-played...
...plea for special treatment came from a staunch conservative friend and West European ally, so President Reagan was happy to comply. He made a date in his appointment calendar, and this week the White House will roll out its best red carpet for West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The one-day working visit will be used by Kohl to fill Reagan in on the latest Franco-German efforts to promote West European political unity and on Bonn's views of East-West relations. But that does not fully explain the Chancellor's eagerness to become the first major...