Word: helmut
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl came to Harvard...
...with Helmut Kohl ended yet another decade of Harvard's Commencement exercises...
German leader Helmut Kohl, whose popularity has plunged as his countrymen have become aware of just how much unification is going to cost, is losing his patience. Walking through the shabby central square in the town of Halle earlier this month, Kohl caught the people's disaffection right in the face. Irate citizens pelted him with eggs while shouting, "Liar! Liar!" The enraged Kohl, egg yolks dripping from his head and lapels, shook off security personnel and plunged into the crowd to confront the hecklers. Just as the burly Bundeskanzler was taking a swing, his guards dragged him away...
...defeat that Helmut Kohl suffered in the Rhineland-Palatinate last week amounted to a mugging in his backyard. Although the Chancellor was not on the ticket, the polling for the legislature of his home state was seen throughout the country as a referendum on his handling of the merger of the two Germanys. | His Christian Democratic party (CDU) was beaten, 38.7% to 44.8%, by the Social Democrats. Kohl, the state's premier from 1969 to 1976, admitted that the defeat was "personally painful...
Recent graduating classes have been treated to world leaders. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl spoke last year, and Benazir Bhutto '73, the former prime minister of Pakistan, spoke in 1989. The Class of 1991 deserves a speaker of similar stature, or at least someone famous and less familiar than our own chief administrator...