Word: hassel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will probably remain as chairman of the C.D.U. until the party convention in October. Clearly, though, his effective political career is over. One possible successor is Rhineland-Palatinate Minister-President Helmut Kohl, 43, who lost a battle for party leadership to Barzel in 1971. Defense Minister Kai Uwe Von Hassel, 60, may become floor leader. For the moment, however, Barzel's replacement on the floor is 69-year-old Kurt Georg Kiesinger, West Germany's Christian Democratic Chancellor from 1966 to 1969. Late last week Kiesinger watched his party go down to defeat as the Bundestag backed...
...midst of a heated debate about West Germany's budget one afternoon last week, Bundestag President Kai-Uwe von Hassel suddenly clanged his hand bell and the packed parliament fell silent. A moment later, its members broke into thunderous applause, and deputies on both sides of the aisle rose in a standing ovation. Von Hassel had just announced that Chancellor Willy Brandt was the winner of the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize. Greatly moved, Brandt told the Bundestag that he would do everything "to make myself worthy of this honor...
Despite the fact that the Shah strictly followed the rules of protocol laid down at the 1815 Congress of Vienna, some guests were miffed. When Kai-Ewe von Hassel, president of West Germany's Bundestag, was sent to represent (Federal President Gustav Heinemann, protocol decreed that he be shifted to a hotel and his tent assigned to the higher-ranking Princess Bilgis of Afghanistan. Von Hassel was not happy...
Three years ago, when West Germany's air force was losing almost two Starfighter jets a month in crashes, Kai-Uwe von Hassel, who was then the Federal Republic's Defense Minister, offered a very personal defense of the ill-fated aircraft. To critics of the U.S.-designed, German-built fighter-bomber. Von Hassel replied that he had such faith in the plane that he had no hesitation about allowing his only son to become a Starfighter pilot. Last week, after a routine 75-minute flight over the North Sea, a Starfighter piloted by Lieut. Joachim von Hassel...