Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also served as Vice Chancellor there from...
...arrival of the first cruise launchers was symbolic of the West European effort to keep the two issues separate. Although the West German government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl maintained its formal opposition to the invasion, Kohl last week expressed "understanding" for the U.S. move. West German Government Spokesman Jürgen Sudhoff explained that "additional elements," such as the discovery of armed Cuban construction workers and the Grenadian Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon's plea for help, had cast new light on the events...
Such protests won support gress. Michigan's Democratic Donald Riegle formally proposed, and the full Senate agreed by a vote of 53 to 18, that "restrictions imposed upon the press in Grenada shall cease." At a House com mittee hearing, NBC Commentator John Chancellor said that the censorship was not based on military need but "got into the area of politics...
...astonished" by the U.S. reticence. The government of French President François Mitterrand termed the U.S. invasion "a surprising action in relation to international law," and said that "the people of Grenada must recover without delay the right to determine their destiny." The government of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl issued an unusually blunt statement declaring that "if we had been consulted we would have advised against it." In Italy, Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi said that his government "can only disapprove this decision," and added that the U.S. intervention "has dangerous precedents and also establishes another dangerous precedent...
...believe, along with Orthodox Jews, that Halakhah (religious law) clearly rules out women rabbis. According to the Talmud (teachings of religious sages compiled more than 14 centuries ago), women may not perform certain functions reserved to men, such as witnessing betrothals and marriages and leading congregations in prayers. J.T.S. Chancellor Gerson D. Cohen, who presided over the vote, left little doubt that he rejects the Orthodox view and believes that women should be allowed to perform these functions. Said Cohen: "I believe it is incumbent upon us to do away with discrimination against women in Judaism, especially when...