Word: chancellor
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Frederick P. Cullen Jr. Chancellor...
...intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe. At the same time, some of the 464 ground-launched cruise missiles scheduled for deployment in five West European countries will be moved into place in Britain and Italy. Although the missile question has provoked the most heated opposition in West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl vigorously reaffirmed, in recent meetings with President Reagan and Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, that his government was committed to the NATO decision no matter how many people demonstrated this fall...
...News President Reuven Frank demoted Mudd in a confrontation that Frank described as "painful but not acrimonious." Mudd was lured from CBS in 1980, after losing to Rather in the competition to succeed Cronkite, with the promise that he would become NBC'S sole anchor if John Chancellor stepped down. Later Mudd agreed to share the job to help NBC keep Brokaw. For his pains, Mudd was reassigned to what he does as well as nearly anyone else in television, political reporting. He announced his ouster to newsroom colleagues last Tuesday. Nothing was said on the show that night...
Installation of a single anchor at each network would be almost a first for the era since the three newscasts expanded to half an hour in the 1960s. The only other instance was during an eleven-month period in 1975 and 1976, when Cronkite competed with Chancellor at NBC and Harry Reasoner at ABC. The change would be most dramatic for ABC, which invented the multianchor "whiparound" because it lacked a single, forceful personality. Almost accidentally, ABC created a version of Marshall McLuhan's "global village," with newscasters focusing on diverse stories as they viewed the world from different...
Marchais's challenge came at an awkward moment for Mitterrand, who had traveled to a forest retreat in Alsace to discuss the Geneva negotiations with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The French President refused to be drawn further into the debate, noting only that he and Kohl had "breathed the fresh air; looked at the trees, the flowers and the sky; and talked a lot." But there was no getting around the fact that the missile disagreement was putting strains on the leftist coalition...