Word: chancellor
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...currency traders who knocked the British pound and Italian lira out of the E.C.'s monetary system two weeks ago displayed their own doubts about the future by selling off French francs in favor of German marks. French President Francois Mitterrand and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, after conferring in Paris, vowed to work together, and their central banks jointly supported the franc...
Money problems completed the process of disillusionment. For months, partners of Germany have been pressing that nation to reduce interest rates and allow the stalled European economy to gather some speed. The problem was that German unification was costing far more than Chancellor Helmut Kohl had anticipated -- and honoring a German version of the "read my lips" pledge, Kohl was paying the bills by borrowing money instead of hiking taxes. As a result, interest rates rose not only in Germany but also throughout the Continent. Supporters of European unity could claim that the closer union envisaged in the Maastricht treaty...
This stunning reversal by Major left his government's economic policy and British politics in turmoil. He rejected all calls for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, to resign, and even among the government's critics there was a forlorn sense that the crisis had been beyond the ability of anyone in Britain to control. "It wouldn't matter if you put King Kong in the Treasury," complained Tory M.P. and Euro-skeptic Sir Teddy Taylor. "The ^ Germans control our economy...
...special police powers to confront the skinheads and neo-Nazis did not seem to deter anyone. Although there was no breakdown in civic order, the attacks reached to the front door of the government: right-wingers threw fire bombs at a house of asylum seekers a mile from Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Bonn office...
Denovo was shot dead by an officer who said she lunged at him with a machete when she was cornered in the chancellor's residence. A note found inside her duffel bag bore the message, "We are willing to die for this land...