Word: chancellor
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...considering some heartening news. According to a poll published in the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, Kohl's Christian Democratic Party and its ally in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union, were leading the rival Social Democrats 49% to 42%. Those figures marked a 1.5% rise in the popularity of Chancellor Kohl's conservative grouping from the previous week, and an almost identical decline for the Social Democrats. Said Kohl: "Things are now going in our direction...
...Chancellor is still far from victory in West Germany's volatile and, perhaps, pivotal election campaign. The stakes include not only the Chancellor's office, but the direction of West German foreign policy and possibly even the future of the NATO alliance. The reason: as the campaign has progressed, the electorate has become increasingly polarized over the placement of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles on West German soil. A poll for Der Spiegel published a week ago showed that approval of the so-called two-track NATO strategy of deploying the missiles, while simultaneously pursuing arms talks...
...have predicted that West German politics would have become so muddled. Though the Social Democrats had been in office for 13 years, their popularity had reached a low of 27.5%, compared with 54% for the Christian Democrats. The Social Democrats were tired and tattered by factional disputes centering on Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's pro-NATO defense policy and his management of the economy. When Kohl and the Christian Democrats took office in October, some Social Democrat leaders predicted that their demoralized party would recover only after long years in opposition...
Paradoxically, Kohl has also suffered from his brief period of incumbency. With monthly business failures hitting an alltime high of 1,257 in December and an unemployment rate of 10.2%, many voters are blaming Kohl for failing to arrange a quick upturn in the economy, though the new Chancellor has had little time to make much difference in the face of unavoidable economic difficulty...
Last month the university's board of trustees tried to still the uproar over Funderburk by putting him in charge of a new administrative organization for the university's two branches, but placing day-to-day operations at the Auburn campus into the hands of a chancellor. That official, however, will report to Funderburk. The solution has only reinforced the faculty's fears. Its main proponent was R.C. ("Red") Bamberg, 71, vice chairman of the board and a major figure in rural Democratic politics and the Alabama Farm Bureau. Bamberg, who has served on the board since...