Word: rhineland
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...princely in retrospect. His latest CD, HIStory, has sold 6 million copies so far, in contrast to 17 million copies worldwide for his previous CD, Dangerous--a considerable letdown after a $30 million ad campaign that was almost as sweeping and fearsome as Germany's taking of the Rhineland...
...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...
...Rhineland vote had another unpleasant consequence for the Christian Democrats. In Bonn's bicameral legislature, members of the upper house represent the regional governments. With the Rhineland's four seats now going to the Social Democrats, the CDU has lost its majority in the chamber...
...coalition partners took a 19-point lead into the election, seemingly assuring them of victory over Social Democrat Oskar Lafontaine. The anticipated margin was large enough to leave Christian Democrats fretting that it might be eroded by a low voter turnout. Said a civil servant in the Rhineland: "It's certainly no Schicksalswahl ((election of destiny...
...MEIN BACKYARD. Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Atwood heard a common complaint recently. A governor of a remote state flew to Washington to head off possible military-base closings that would affect his local economy. So what else is new? The governor was Carl-Ludwig Wagner, and the state was Rhineland-Palatinate in West Germany...