Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gorbachev visited East Berlin and announced, almost in so many words, that Erich Honecker was on his own. For a Soviet puppet, that means the end. The juggernaut of unification was under way. Kohl found himself in the driver's seat largely ex officio: he happened to be the Chancellor of West Germany when the Soviet Union let East Germany go, which meant letting it come home...
...campaign rallies. His Social Democrats lost because the people of the G.D.R. have had their fill of anything that even sounds socialist. But they still owe much to the author of Ostpolitik. What Willy Brandt did two decades ago helped make it possible for them to elect a unity Chancellor this year...
Waving expansively at the snow-topped Caucasus Mountains, Mikhail Gorbachev observed with a grin that he and Chancellor Helmut Kohl were already in the foothills and wanted "to develop our relations further upward." After two days of talks, their cordiality escalated to outright chumminess. They emerged from a resort lodge in sweaters and open-necked shirts to stroll bantering through the fields and flowers of the Russian countryside. At the resort spa of Zheleznovodsk, they jubilantly announced that they had swept aside the last significant obstacles to uniting Germany by the end of the year. Yes, Gorbachev said, a unified...
...Christian Democrats could not stay in power. He first came to the Foreign Ministry's top job in 1974 as the coalition partner of Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party. But in 1982 he broke ranks with Schmidt over economic policy, making it possible for Kohl to become Chancellor. In return, Genscher got to keep his post. In early 1987 Genscher became the first major Western diplomat to urge that Gorbachev be taken "at his word," a position that put him at odds not only with Kohl but also with the Reagan Administration. Last year Genscher persuaded a reluctant Kohl...
...united Germany within his grasp, the West German Chancellor is certain never to be underestimated again. What makes him tick? -- A Kremlin nightmare comes true as the Ukraine seeks sovereignty. -- The U.S. does an about-face on its Cambodia policy, paving the way for talks with Vietnam...