Word: chancellor
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...recent years, Commencement speakers haveincluded Vice President Al G '69; former chair ofthe Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L. Powell; GroHarlem Brundtland, prime minister of Norway;former Soviet Foreign Minister EduardShevardnadze; German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; andPakistani Prime Minister Benazier Bhutto
...this is a war in which they've broken every single rule that applies to modern warfare." Secretary of State Warren Christopher said today that he supported Russia's right to suppress armed insurrection but worried that Yeltsin's military assault has escalated out of his control; in Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl called the Russian leader to press for an end to the violence...
...Russian wrangling helped keep the CSCE from reaching any agreement on what to do about the war in Bosnia. Russia, which sympathizes with Bosnia's Orthodox Serbs, blocked a proposal to condemn Serb attacks on the Muslim enclave of Bihac. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl suggested a bland appeal for a truce, but even that failed...
...strange wire indeed. The German government, or at least the Defense Ministry, has been an agitator on behalf of faster NATO enlargement. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's own Christian Democratic Union, meeting in a party congress last week, passed a resolution recognizing that the Bosnia embargo may have to be lifted. Kohl personally endorsed the measure, saying failure to protect Muslim sanctuaries was a "disgrace." Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel said Germany "stands morally close to the American position." In practical terms, however, it stands apart...
Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany for 12 years, was elected to a fourth term -- but just barely. Kohl received 338 parliamentary votes, just one more vote than the absolute majority he required. Two legislators from Kohl's Christian Democratic Party were roused from sickbeds, and another rushed into the Parliament chambers just two minutes before the voting closed, apparently having overslept...