Word: chancellor
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...demotion of Roger Mudd as anchorman on NBC News [Aug. 8] reinforces my opinion that David Brinkley, Chet Huntley, Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor and Edwin Newman would never be hired if they were starting out today. They are not pretty enough...
...Geneva, and of a readiness to use Europe as a battlefield in a limited nuclear war. Said the Frankfurter Rundschau: "There have been hints from the U.S. that war could be limited, even if an inhabited Europe would no longer exist." Defense of American policy by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl gets short shrift. Attacks on the Reagan Administration's commitment to peace by top Social Democrats are reported in full, except for a failure to note that former Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was a principal architect of the missile-deployment plan. Led by Spiegel, the leftist periodicals...
...very understandable, resistance in the Administration to the notion that West European political forces should determine American military actions. How far can we let European fears push us? The answer, alas, is quite far indeed when the weapons in question are to be installed on European real estate. Chancellor Helmut Kohl has been admirably stalwart in his support of U.S. arms-control policy and rearmament efforts alike. If some further adjustment of the U.S. negotiating position would help him keep his domestic opposition at bay, then it makes sense to give...
West German officials tried last week to temper their earlier statements on the walk-in-the-woods package. While Kohl vacationed in Austria, a government spokesman emphasized that the Chancellor and the U.S. were "in complete agreement that NATO'S decision would have to be followed and that, failing a solution in Geneva, both missile systems would have to be deployed." After visiting Kohl in Austria, Genscher appeared on television to say that "the question of the weapons mix has played a greater role in the past few days than it in truth deserves." The Foreign Minister explained that...
...gesture that caught all the environmental fervor so characteristic of West Germany's Green Party. Minutes after Helmut Kohl had been elected Chancellor last March, Marieluise Beck-Oberdorf, 31, a new Green deputy, handed him a branch from a fir tree that had been exposed to acid rain. With that impulsive act, Beck-Oberdorf breached her idealistic party's agreement against any individual initiative. For her transgression, she was castigated so harshly by her parliamentary colleagues that she burst into tears...