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...appealed to the Western powers for any kind of intervention, preferably military. Faced with an impossible task, however, Washington, European capitals, NATO and the U.N. could do nothing but rescue their own. "If we send soldiers, what are we going to give them for a mission?" wondered German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Virtually alone, Austrian former Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, an envoy for the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, tried to come up with some international relief. He met with the new Albanian Prime Minister, Bashkim Fino, on Friday, then went to the southern port of Vlora to talk with...
...imprisoned. When the U.S. Army closed in on Germany, my father succeeded in escaping, but other family members, along with other prisoners, were shot. You mentioned that 30,000 Jewish refugees were turned away at the Swiss border. An equal number of political refugees must have shared that fate. HELMUT SCHMIDT Orgeval, France...
...strict application of the Maastricht criteria and for ironclad rules to support the euro, so that it will be as strong as the German mark. Some believe that privately he is a single-currency foe fearful of losing his power to the new European Central Bank. Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in an extraordinary open letter last year, branded Tietmeyer's stance as anti-European. "If you continue with your stubborn policies," Schmidt wrote to the banker, "Germany will become isolated...
Panelists include John Kenneth Galbraith, the Paul M. Warburg professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Harvard; Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development; and Helmut Schlesinger, former president of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Also invited are two U.S. senators and the president of the World Bank...
...early 1993 a CIA team marched into the offices of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and spread out before his aides their satellite photos and intelligence reports on Tarhunah. The analysts had identified a key part in the boring machines: the large bits at the front, which would quickly wear out as they cut a hole six yards high and eight yards wide into the mountain. These had to be constantly replaced. Stop the supply of spare bits, the CIA men told Kohl's advisers, and the boring machines would soon become useless. Embarrassed by revelations in 1988 that German companies...