Word: chancellorship
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...Mayor Willy Brandt looked like a political washout. He had twice led his Social Democratic Party to defeat in national elections, and so severe was his drubbing at the hands of Chancellor Ludwig Erhard last year that Brandt declared bitterly that he would never again campaign for the chancellorship. Privately relieved, the Social Democrats began looking around for a successor...
...need not have been. Austrians had clung to their "Red-Black" coalition-giving the chancellorship to the People's Party and the presidency to the Social ists - because the mere idea of two-party competition recalled the civil strife of the 1930s and the subsequent German takeover. But in recent months the two parties had frequently reached deadlock over the People's Party's at tempt to trim funds for state-owned enterprises. Then, after the March election, Socialist Boss Bruno Pittermann presented his party's demands for going along with coalition: continued control...
After centuries as the playing field of England's budding politicians, Oxford University understandably plays its own games of academic politics in mock-heroic earnest. Harold Macmillan twice won the prime-ministership by wider margins than his 1960 squeak into Oxford's chancellorship. "There's nothing most dons [professors] like better than a good bitchy election," observed the Sunday Times. Last week the bitchiest one in years had Oxford-and the nation -twittering as the port was passed...
...greater share of the vote for his party than any Socialist had ever done before, Brandt fell far short of winning a role in 'the government as part of a "grand coalition." Two days after the election, Brandt announced that he would not try for the chancellorship...
...Bundestag convenes on Oct. 19. It might not be easy, for the C.D.U., three seats short of an outright majority, inevitably needs Mende's Free Democrats once again for a coalition that could wield firm parliamentary control. Mende promptly staked out his claims: for himself, the vice-chancellorship and Ministry of All-German Affairs again, plus three other Cabinet posts for his party. Somehow, however, Erhard would have to reconcile Mende's demands with those of former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss. Strauss is chief of the 48-man Bavarian branch of the C.D.U., which won a thumping...