Word: chancellor
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...Lamont was playing the traditional Chancellor's role of scapegoat. "If he is cautious, he is accused of being gloomy; if he is slightly upbeat, he is accused of being complacent...
Ryan said, however, that she planned to send aletter to Chancellor Helmut Kohl "to expressshock" about recent events...
...shift opens the way for a compromise with Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats, who still feel the SPD has not gone far enough to stanch the flow of refugees from the east, 500,000 of whom are expected this year alone...
...antiforeign assaults mounted, Bonn remained paralyzed by a debate over whether constitutional changes were the solution. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Union insisted that an amendment to curtail the right of asylum was the only way to stop racial violence. After much internal strife, the opposition Social Democrats seem ready to agree. But a belated victory for Kohl will not erase suspicions that his government has been more concerned with political gain and bolstering its own appeal to a right-leaning electorate than with law-and-order measures to end the strife in the streets...
...also moved to reopen negotiations with Washington. France's partners forced E.C. Commission President Jacques Delors to reinstate Ray MacSharry, the Community's principal agricultural negotiator, who had resigned after accusing Delors of undermining his efforts. British Prime Minister John Major insisted on a deal, and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl called the prospect of a trade war "politics of idiocy." Mitterrand conceded that the isolation of France would be "very dangerous." But France has support from Italy, Spain and Belgium. A compromise is foreseeable, but not readily. (See related story on page...