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Significantly, Kohl has agreed to appoint Friedrich Zimmermann, 57, his Interior Minister. Zimmermann is a conservative long known for his anti-immigration and anti environmentalist views. His name was put forward for the job by Franz Josef Strauss, the abrasive head of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party to the C.D.U.* The Interior Minister's appointment has already raised protests from a wide range of left-wing groups, including the Greens, the growing third force in West German politics, who recently won 8% of the vote in local elections in the industrial state of Hesse. A loose...
...most direct damage to Schmidt's political fortunes was inflicted by an alliance formed especially for this election between the Greens, an environmentalist left-wing fringe group opposed to the government's nuclear-energy and defense policies, and smaller similar movements, known as the Alternative List...
Although it was no secret that Communists were involved in the peace movement from its inception, the issue came to the fore at a meeting held in Bad Godesberg in April to plan the June rally. Repeatedly, leaders of Protestant and environmentalist groups that led the antinuclear protest last year were shouted down. A proposal to mention Soviet missiles at this week's rally was loudly booed, then voted down. A motion calling for a "nonviolent" demonstration against Reagan was rejected. Later, Ernst Hoplitscheck, a spokesman for the Greens, West Germany's ecology party, charged that...
...apartment on Manhattan's East Side, he regards contemporary life with as much equanimity as his traditional tastes and Protestant values will allow. But when a pond in his daughter's village is rezoned for dumping, ruining his weekend ice skating, Sears gets mad. He hires an environmentalist to fight the despoliation. He also, unexpectedly, begins an affair with an attractive younger woman he meets in a bank...
DIED. René Jules Dubos, 81, microbiologist and environmentalist; of cancer; in New York City. Dubos won fame in 1939 for research that led to the first commercially produced antibiotics. He expounded the idea in several of his 20-odd books that a favorable environment is necessary to human physical, mental and social development; So Human an Animal won a Pulitzer Prize...