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Today, of course, we know the decisive election victory of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's conservative coalition was exactly one of these continuities, not ruptures, in German history. Were there ever any real reasons to doubt the election results? Why all the worry and hand-wringing...
Against this background of unrelieved divisiveness, it seemed natural that, almost instinctively, West Germany's voters turned to the burly, folksy, reassuring figure of Helmut Kohl, 52. Less than two hours after last Sunday's polling ended, computer projections showed Kohl's Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union, gaining an estimated 49.3% of the popular vote. Kohl's Social Democratic rival, Hans-Jochen Vogel, 57, ran second with 38.2%. The environmentalist, antinuclear Green Party polled around 5%, possibly gaining a disruptive foothold in the Bundestag. The small Free Democratic Party, Kohl...
...power as Chancellor was assured by the survival of the Free Democrats, who once again resumed their role as the balance of power in West German politics. Kohl's risky gamble in holding national elections six months after the collapse of the coalition, led by Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt, had paid off. Despite the existence of a widespread and vocal peace and protest movement, spearheaded by the Greens, Kohl had always maintained that there was a "silent majority" in the country in favor of his pro-NATO, free-enterprise policies...
...government regards with concern the massive and hitherto unprecedented manner in which the Soviet Union is interfering in the election campaign and the internal politics of the Federal Republic of Germany." That unusually tough declaration came late last week from Jürgen Sudhoff, a spokesman for Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic coalition. The reason for the outburst: Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's appeal to West Europeans to show "political maturity" by disavowing the U.S. bargaining position at the Geneva talks on intermediate-range missiles. The Soviet statement was seen as a blatant boost for Hans...
...major candidates have proposed sharply contrasting remedies. Since taking office last October after the collapse of Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's coalition, Kohl has tried to trim the federal deficit (projected at $18.5 billion for 1983) while offering tax incentives to spur new investment. Vogel has pledged to undo Kohl's reforms, and called for a $.3.5 billion program to create jobs. He has also suggested that the work week be reduced from 40 to 35 hours with no cut in pay. Vogel's program has alarmed businessmen, who fear that his proposals would increase labor...