Word: chancellor
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...increasingly popular Communist Party, the biggest concern for G-7 leaders was showing support for Yeltsin and his reform policies. "All the pomp and ceremony of being seen with world leaders has to have some impact on voters," Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly says. "Standing near people like German Chancellor Kohl and President Clinton touches the Russian idea that they are still a great nation, which is hard to see in day-to-day life." Although Yeltsin easily won public backing from European and Japanese leaders, President Clinton tip-toed around the election issue as much as possible. "Clinton handled...
...view: "What if the fetus is retarded or plagued with the Epstein-Barr Syndrome--should the child be forced to live an unpleasant life?" Your concern for the future happiness of the fetus is most touching. However, your position flagrantly violates the principle of individual liberty. Nobody--not the chancellor of one's Reichstag, nor the general secretary of one's Supreme Soviet, no one's friend, nor one's father, nor even one's mother, should be allowed to decide whether one is to live or whether one is to be killed. For anyone to take this prerogative...
...early 1993 a CIA team marched into the offices of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and spread out before his aides their satellite photos and intelligence reports on Tarhunah. The analysts had identified a key part in the boring machines: the large bits at the front, which would quickly wear out as they cut a hole six yards high and eight yards wide into the mountain. These had to be constantly replaced. Stop the supply of spare bits, the CIA men told Kohl's advisers, and the boring machines would soon become useless. Embarrassed by revelations in 1988 that German companies...
...marriage. The Bennet girls travel in polite society, but they are not as well off as the company they are trying to keep, a point they are not allowed to forget, thanks to the endless derision of people like the snobbish Miss Bingley, played with amusing bite by Anna Chancellor...
Also attending the vigil on the steps of Widener library was Omo Omoruyi, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, who initiated Nigeria's Democratic transtion program. "[Saro Wiwa] was my classmate; bright, intelligent, a man of peace," Omoruvi said. "His death should not have been the was it was, but he is gone...