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Wharton enrolled at Harvard at age 16, was thefirst Black member of WHRB and graduated cumlaude in 1947. An economist and expert oninternational affairs, Wharton began his tenure asthe first Black president of Michigan stateUniversity in 1969 and became Chancellor of theState University of New York...
...LINEUP OF WORLD LEADERS WILL include Prime Minister John Major, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and, now that he has finally made up his mind to go, President George Bush. The Dalai Lama will join a delegation of clerics, artists and green-minded parliamentarians. Hundreds of native leaders, from American Indians to Malaysian tribesmen, will represent the interests of the world's indigenous peoples. Tens of thousands of diplomats, scientists, ecologists, theorists, feminists, journalists, tourists and assorted hangers-on are expected to gather in dozens of auditoriums and outdoor sites for nearly 400 official and unofficial events, among...
...deny that the governing coalition, shaken by the economy's troubles and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher's resignation, was in any danger. The opposition Social Democrats accused the government of "stupidity and provocation." They now top Kohl's Christian Democrats in the polls and are calling for the Chancellor's resignation. "The coalition is stable," Kohl insisted last week. (See related story on page...
...taste of civic disorder, when garbage collectors, transport workers and other public employees walked off their jobs in the longest and most acrimonious strike since the end of World War II. Streets stank, planes didn't fly, traffic snarled. In the end the workers prevailed, forcing the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl to surrender to a 5.4% pay raise. It was less than the unions wanted but more than Kohl felt Germany could afford...
...unions put much trust in Kohl's words. In 1990, campaigning for election as the Chancellor of one Germany, he promised "blossoming landscapes" in the east by 1994 and insisted that "nobody will be worse off after unification." But two years later the landscape is not blooming, and recovery of the east is likely to take 10 years at least. Kohl said there would be no new taxes, but the government enacted stiff "unity surcharges" on income taxes last year. He promised to control inflation, the economic hobgoblin of postwar Germany, yet it is running higher than 4%. Last week...