Word: chancellor
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...WEST German citizens, we are disappointed with Harvard's choice of Chancellor Helmut Kohl as the Commencement speaker. Only three years after West German President Richard von Weizsacker gave a brilliant speech at Commencement, we will be embarassed to hear Kohl speak for Germans on such sensitive topics as reunification and Germany's relation to its past...
...Harvard-Radcliffe students, we are concerned that Kohl is not an appropriate speaker at an event that celebrates the conclusion of a liberal education. The most distinguishing characteristic of Chancellor Kohl is his relentless drive for power, which hardly qualifies him as a positive role model for graduating seniors...
Kohl became chancellor in 1982 largely by default, after Kohl's main competitior, the late Franz Joseph Strauss, had discredited himself as a viable candidate following his defeat in the 1980 election. Kohl was fortunate enough to be the opposition leader when the governing socialist-liberal coalition under Helmut Schmidt crumbled...
...East Germany on March 18 are a case in point. Kohl pressured three East German parties to join forces by forming the "Alliance for Germany," which, incidentally, was proclaimed in Bonn rather than in East Berlin. At campaign rallies in East Germany, he let himself be announced as the "Chancellor of the German Fatherland." Subsequently, he declared openly that the flow of West German aid to East Germany was conditional on the outcome of East German elections...
Lithuanians had been hoping for foreign intervention in their secession standoff with Moscow, but what they got last week was not what they had in mind. Winding up a summit in Paris, French President Francois Mitterrand and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl urged Vilnius to resolve its crisis with Moscow "through the classic channels of dialogue." To get talks going, they suggested in a letter to Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, "it would be helpful if the effects of the decisions taken by your Parliament were suspended...