Word: chancellor
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...will never again achieve nuclear superiority. But if it plays its cards right, our Government can accomplish some semblance of nuclear equality in Europe. To gain this position, the State Department will have to campaign more actively for the support of our European allies, and West German Chancellor Kohl will have to persuade his country to accept the basing of the Pershing. The other European countries would then follow his lead...
Helmut Schmidt, the former Chancellor of West Germany, will speak at the MIT's commencement ceremony in late May, MIT President Paul E. Gray, said yesterday...
Kenneth E. Dumas', president of MIT's senior class and a member of the selection committee, said that Schmidt will probably speak more openly about world affairs since he is no longer Chancellor. He added that "he would probably both have something relevant to say and not necessarily support a specific cause...
...already well under way in Europe. In Bonn, Paul Nitze, 76, the chief U.S. negotiator in the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks with the Soviet Union in Geneva, dropped hints of his own that the Administration was edging away from the zero proposal. After Nitze met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Defense Minister Manfred Wōrner, a senior West German official said: "The word used most often by Nitze was flexibility, with balance spoken more softly afterward...
...search for an interim solution has been enthusiastically embraced by the Social Democrats, though the party officially favors deployment if talks break down. Says Hans-Jochen Vogel, the party's leader and candidate for Chancellor: "There has hardly ever been a negotiation in which the final result was identical to the opening position of one of the parties." He adds: "Kohl wants a mandate for deployment. I am fighting to avoid deployment." At a party convention last week, Vogel drew the loudest cheers when he called for a "constructive" U.S. reply to Soviet overtures for reciprocal arms reductions. Still...