Word: chancellor
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...business as usual here." So said an aide to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl last I week, and in one sense it was. After a smashing election triumph, the newly affirmed leader of Western Europe's richest and most strategic nation was going out of his way to take a relaxed approach to victory. On the day following the election, Kohl's staff conference began, as usual, at 10 a.m. on the second floor of Bonn's low-slung, glass-and-steel chancellery. The Chancellor kept to his daily appointments. The biggest change in staff routine involved...
...cool attitude, Kohl, 52, had every reason to be ebullient. In an election billed as a watershed in West German history, his Christian Democratic/Christian Social Union alliance had won 48.8% of the popular vote, guaranteeing Kohl 244 seats in the country's 520-member Bundestag. Meanwhile, the Chancellor's coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party, led by Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, 55, survived a potentially fatal drop in popular esteem to win 6.9% of the vote and 34 Bundestag seats, thereby providing Kohl with a sturdy governing majority. The opposition Social Democratic Party, led by Hans-Jochen...
While Kohl's elation was under careful control, a certain exuberance managed to break out in Washington. Within hours of his victory, the Chancellor received telephone congratulations from President Ronald Reagan. The President termed the election result "spectacular." He said that he had never doubted Kohl would win and looked forward to working together "on the economic and security challenges which our nations face." The pair discussed the possibility of having Kohl visit Washington around the time of the May summit meeting of Western industrialized nations in Williamsburg, Va., which both leaders will attend. Most West European leaders were...
...long. Industrial growth may reach no more than one-quarter of 1% in 1983. The combined federal, state and municipal government budget deficit for 1983 is projected to exceed $31 billion. Vogel had promised to cancel all the austerity measures that Kohl had taken during his five months as Chancellor prior to the election. Kohl's belt-tightening gospel was undoubtedly unpopular, but Vogel's vow to return to freer spending of dwindling government resources apparently turned out to be an unsatisfactory proposition for most voters. The newly mandated Chancellor is expected to cut where he can, weather...
Gardner knows full well what he is getting into. Says Michael Heyman, chancellor of the university's Berkeley campus: "I tend to think of this as someone coming back into the family." In all, Gardner has spent a dozen years in the California system, first as a student earning his M.A. in political science and doctorate in higher education at Berkeley, then as a skilled, tactful administrator. As Santa Barbara's vice chancellor during the riot-torn late '60s and early '70s, he worked effectively as liaison between the university administration, the Governor, the students...