Word: chancellor
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...result of pressure from Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, who, to Moscow's embarrassment, has frequently criticized both the East and the West for the arms buildup. Another explanation was that the Warsaw Pact leaders wanted to sound a peaceful note on the eve of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's meeting with Soviet President Yuri Andropov in Moscow this week. Andropov will undoubtedly urge Kohl not to accept deployment of Pershing II missiles on West German soil...
...arches of Christ Church Cathedral; then they salted piety with a touch of hubris, praying that they might "use to God's glory the gifts and opportunities with which we have been so abundantly blessed." Later, over Paarl 1961 vintage port, selected to honor the South Africans present, Chancellor of Oxford and former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan declared that those attending were the product of "the most imaginative plan, the most imaginative concept ever designed" in education...
...controversy erupted this school year when Black students insisted that the university symbols--the Confederates flag as the seal, "Dixie" as the fight song, and Col. Rbel (a Southern colonel in white goatee and gray tails) as the mascot--were racist and should be scrapped. The chancellor responded by stopping the distribution of flags before sporting events, but white alumni and students started producing them privately and passing them out before games. The debate over the meaning of the symbols is a reasonable one: just as the Confederacy represented a society degrading and oppressive to Blacks, it was unique culture...
...Lords. All told, she made more than 60 changes in her government, including twelve in her 21-member Cabinet. Thatcher assured the wary that the ideological balance had not shifted to the right, but the new government certainly bore her stamp. Pym and Whitelaw, for example, were replaced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe and his deputy Leon Brittan, both devoted Thatcherites. Nigel Lawson, who proved abrasive but loyal as Secretary of Energy, took over at Treasury...
...been considered an "event" unto itself--separate from the magnificent pomp that marks each Harvard graduation--at least since 1947, when the circumstance was used for the unveiling of the Marshall Plan. A recent string of prominent speakers--exiled Russian writer Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn in 1978, then-West German Chancellor Helmudt Schmidt in 1979, and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in 1980--bolstered the reputation. But extending similar invitations the following two years, alumni officials were not quite so successful. They tried for then-recently-inaugurated President Ronald Reagan in 1981, and settled for Thomas Watson, former ambassador...