Word: schmidts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...major candidates have proposed sharply contrasting remedies. Since taking office last October after the collapse of Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's coalition, Kohl has tried to trim the federal deficit (projected at $18.5 billion for 1983) while offering tax incentives to spur new investment. Vogel has pledged to undo Kohl's reforms, and called for a $.3.5 billion program to create jobs. He has also suggested that the work week be reduced from 40 to 35 hours with no cut in pay. Vogel's program has alarmed businessmen, who fear that his proposals would increase labor...
...hands and exchanging greetings with some of the 6,000 supporters in attendance. From the podium, Kohl catalogued a variety of traditional conservative remedies for the social and economic ills of West Germany that arose, he said, during the rule of his Social Democratic predecessors, Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt. The Chancellor's voice rose to a shout as he reaffirmed a decision to deploy U.S.-built Pershing II and cruise missiles in the country if Geneva arms-limitation talks between the U.S. and the Soviet Union fail to achieve progress by December...
According to the latest polls, Kohl's conservative Christian Democrats should win 48% of the vote and the Social Democrats 43%. The Free Democratic Party, which precipitated the change in government last October by shifting its allegiance from Schmidt's Social Democrats to Kohl's Christian Democrats, is given 4%. Unless sentiments change, however, the Greens may win 5%, thereby breaking the barrier necessary for representation in the Bundestag. If that happens, the protest movement will be the first left-wing fringe party in the postwar period to have a say in West German government...
...matter of public record. Wrote the judge: "The 'revelations' of the Ford memoirs were not such news, 'hot' or otherwise, as to permit the use of. . . copyrighted material." Legal researchers generally endorsed Owen's decision, but several agreed with Columbia University Law Professor Benno Schmidt that it was "an excruciatingly close case." Said Schmidt: "If the law were reinterpreted to permit the maximum information to get to the public, the Nation would win." Navasky, unrepentant, agreed. Said he: "The court made a decision that intrudes on journalistic discretion, and we intend to appeal...
Even before the election campaign began, however, Kohl's rosy political prospects started to fade. First, a wave of sympathy began to build for the defeated Schmidt, whose term of office ended when the small, centrist Free Democratic Party deserted his coalition to join Kohl's conservative alignment. Then Kohl faced a voter backlash for the way he arranged the election call, by stage-managing a vote of confidence against himself in the Bundestag. That maneuver has been contested by four Bundestag members before West Germany's Constitutional Court...