Word: chancellor
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Germany, in 1933--the year Hitler became chancellor--was demoralized and economically devastated after World War I. Hitler's message of nationalism and anti-Semitism was embraced as the way the restore the Reich to international respectability...
...CHANCELLOR HELMUT KOHL...
Whether prosecutors will succeed in proving links to Tehran officials is less certain, however. A police officer has testified that a top aide of Chancellor Helmut Kohl ordered a key report to be removed from the evidence file. The exact contents of the report are unclear, but the testimony has deepened suspicions that Iran has been pressuring the German government to limit the Mykonos case to keep intelligence matters out. However, German intelligence chief Bernd Schmidbauer, the country's main liaison with Iran, has repeatedly denied that Tehran has exerted any undue influence or that the missing report contains crucial...
...meantime, many shining examples of this minority in the golden land try to bear up under the occasional unwitting offense. Says Berkeley chancellor Tien, a first-generation Chinese American: "Just today I was walking on campus when someone saw me and asked, 'Are you from Japan?' I said, 'No, I'm your chancellor.' " With lines like that, the education of America...
...funeral of Chicano hero Cesar Chavez last April, UCLA Chancellor Charles Young announced that the school had decided against creating a separate Chicano studies department. No other ethnic group had its own department, a university task force on the subject noted, and there was not enough academic substance to justify adding that one. Within days, however, 300 students -- equivalent to a tenth of the school's Chicanos and about 1% of total enrollment -- staged a protest that escalated into a window- breaking skirmish with police. Next came a hunger strike by five students and one faculty member. In June UCLA...