Word: chancellor
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Actually if one looks back, "turning points" seem to abound in the past half century of German history. From the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 to the initiation of Chancellor; Brandt's Ostpolitik in 1970. Germans have time and again confronted radical shifts and new beginnings in national policies...
Today, of course, we know the decisive election victory of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's conservative coalition was exactly one of these continuities, not ruptures, in German history. Were there ever any real reasons to doubt the election results? Why all the worry and hand-wringing...
...experiments. In addition, blatant Soviet encouragement of the Social Democrats certainly injured that party and its claim to represent independent German interests. Only the fact that the Soviets have meddled and miscalculated in other elections in other countries can explain such foolhardy blindness. Big losers here may be former Chancellor Brandt and armaments expert Egon Bahr, both exponents of a soft-left, nationalist Social Democracy...
Although the result may have left the Christian Democrats just short of an absolute majority in the Bundestag, Kohl's return to power as Chancellor was assured by the survival of the Free Democrats, who once again resumed their role as the balance of power in West German politics. Kohl's risky gamble in holding national elections six months after the collapse of the coalition, led by Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt, had paid off. Despite the existence of a widespread and vocal peace and protest movement, spearheaded by the Greens, Kohl had always maintained that there...
...response to budget cutbacks ordered by New York's new Governor Mario Cuomo, Clifton Wharton, Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY) system said last month that two of the system's largest campuses may be forced to close...