Word: chancellor
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...QUAYLE has found a sympathetic statesman in HELMUT KOHL. The stolid German Chancellor knows the sting of scorn because political opponents long portrayed him as a slow-witted bumbler. After the Vice President visited Bonn in early June, Kohl told aides he thought Quayle had an impressive grasp of global issues. The meeting left Kohl wondering why Quayle gets such negative press...
...West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl came to Harvard...
...virtue in Schwarzkopf's mystery is that the general can be anything to anybody. Corporations look at him and see a take-charge CEO; universities envision a powerhouse chancellor; publishers perceive the author of a best- selling book. Above all, much of the public is enraptured by a new leader whose very appeal is that he has no platform, no party and no intention, at least so far, of running for office. Such political virginity lets people believe that Schwarzkopf, in his big, bold way, could do the heavy work of democracy without being chewed into small pieces...
Meanwhile the offers ring in like a cash register. His memoirs could fetch seven figures, his speeches $30,000 a pop. He has been mentioned as an ideal football coach (the Philadelphia Eagles) or university chancellor (Texas A&M) or business leader (Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca is batting his eyes). Van Poole, chief of the Republican Party in Schwarzkopf's home state of Florida, is exercising monumental restraint. "I thought I'd give him a couple of weeks," he says. The hope is to persuade the general to run against popular Democratic Senator Bob Graham. "I've not talked...
...defeat that Helmut Kohl suffered in the Rhineland-Palatinate last week amounted to a mugging in his backyard. Although the Chancellor was not on the ticket, the polling for the legislature of his home state was seen throughout the country as a referendum on his handling of the merger of the two Germanys. | His Christian Democratic party (CDU) was beaten, 38.7% to 44.8%, by the Social Democrats. Kohl, the state's premier from 1969 to 1976, admitted that the defeat was "personally painful...