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...February to sound out opinion, and Bush argued it with equal vigor at the White House when he returned. The Administration then decided to wait until after the West German elections of March 6. Once those elections had confirmed in power the pro-American government of Christian Democratic Chancellor Helmut Kohl, an interagency group under Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam started intensive planning of a revised American position...
...latest franc crisis had been building up for months, but for political reasons the government chose to wait until after the municipal elections were over before tackling the problem. Meanwhile, the election in West Germany of Christian Democratic Chancellor Helmut Kohl made matters worse. Kohl's reassuring conservatism prompted even more speculators to play the deutsche mark against the failing franc. To the French it was "the deutsche mark problem," and Mitterrand expected Bonn to correct it by simply raising the value of the West German currency. To the West Germans and others it was a "franc problem" caused...
...business as usual here." So said an aide to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl last I week, and in one sense it was. After a smashing election triumph, the newly affirmed leader of Western Europe's richest and most strategic nation was going out of his way to take a relaxed approach to victory. On the day following the election, Kohl's staff conference began, as usual, at 10 a.m. on the second floor of Bonn's low-slung, glass-and-steel chancellery. The Chancellor kept to his daily appointments. The biggest change in staff routine involved...
Kohl intends to re-establish the coalition government that he created nearly six months ago, after the Free Democrats fled their partnership with Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Kohl's first order of business last week was to rebuff Franz Josef Strauss, 67, the brilliant but abrasively ambitious leader of Kohl's Bavarian-based sister party. In a "harmonious" 90-minute meeting at the Christian Democratic headquarters in Bonn, Strauss appeared to expect that the Free Democrats would be shunted aside in the coalition hierarchy and that he, and not Genscher, would be granted the dual posts...
...that taught her, she says, about women's rights and nuclear arms. That same year, lured by what she called the "utopian hope" of former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Kelly joined the Social Democratic Party, only to storm out in 1979 convinced that Brandt's successor, Helmut Schmidt, had betrayed the party's beliefs. Thereafter she joined the Greens, instantly becoming one of the party's brightest spokesmen and strategists...