Word: municheer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...public consciousness through the longevity of a TV hit series, when for 234 half-hour performances in the 1950s and '60s he was Ward Cleaver, the All-American suburban father on the still repeated Leave It to Beaver; of an apparent heart attack; during a visit to Munich, West Germany...
...setting seemed strangely antiseptic for an occasion so potentially fraught with drama. For its first national congress in more than two years, West Germany's ruling Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) had gathered in a cavernous 15,000-seat sports arena built for the 1972 Olympics in Munich. As Chancellor Helmut Schmidt addressed the 440 party delegates and the 1,000 observers present at the event, he faced a sea of unoccupied seats, and his voice echoed through the near empty hall, so distorted by bad acoustics that many in his audience barely understood...
Most political leaders look forward to party conventions as festive tributes to their achievements, real or imagined. Not Helmut Schmidt. This week, as 400 delegates from West Germany's ruling Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) meet in a concrete, saucer-shaped hall built for the 1972 Munich Olympics, the West German Chancellor faces the sharpest criticism and the most divisive party battle of his eight-year tenure. So important is the confrontation that Schmidt has threatened to resign if the S.P.D. does not support his policy on nuclear defense. Though it appears unlikely that he will have...
...powerful left wing of the S.P.D. opposes the Doppelbeschluss, or two-track decision, as risking an unnecessary escalation of the arms race. Bolstered by the strength of the West German peace movement, Schmidt's critics in the party have set out to defeat his defense policies at the Munich congress, even if it means toppling him in the process...
...only good news for Schmidt as he packed his bags for Munich was that, in spite of his party's troubles, he remains his country's most popular politician. To give his government a new image, Schmidt was making plans to reshuffle key portfolios in his Cabinet. But given the mood in Munich, it was unlikely that any move could detract attention for long from the Social Democrats' deep divisions...