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...abandoning its plans to deploy Pershing II and cruise missiles in Europe beginning in December. No such U.S. initiative is likely, though, until after the March 6 elections in West Germany. Any softening of the American stance before then, U.S. officials believe, would undercut Chancellor Helmut Kohl, a firm supporter of the new NATO deployment, in his race against Social Democrat Hans-Jochen Vogel...
...yellow West German flags fluttered amid the crowded banks of seats in the concrete-and-glass stadium in the Baltic port of Kiel. The odors of steaming sausage and green pea soup wafted from giant kettles in the corridors. Through the cheerful melee strode West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, 52, shaking hands and exchanging greetings with some of the 6,000 supporters in attendance. From the podium, Kohl catalogued a variety of traditional conservative remedies for the social and economic ills of West Germany that arose, he said, during the rule of his Social Democratic predecessors, Willy Brandt and Helmut...
...Helmut Kohl, 52, was suffused with optimism last week as he and senior election strategists huddled over breakfast in Bonn's chancellery. With only three weeks remaining until West Germany's March 6 national elections, the tall, affable leader was considering some heartening news. According to a poll published in the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, Kohl's Christian Democratic Party and its ally in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union, were leading the rival Social Democrats 49% to 42%. Those figures marked a 1.5% rise in the popularity of Chancellor Kohl's conservative grouping from the previous...
...predicted that West German politics would have become so muddled. Though the Social Democrats had been in office for 13 years, their popularity had reached a low of 27.5%, compared with 54% for the Christian Democrats. The Social Democrats were tired and tattered by factional disputes centering on Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's pro-NATO defense policy and his management of the economy. When Kohl and the Christian Democrats took office in October, some Social Democrat leaders predicted that their demoralized party would recover only after long years in opposition...
...Helmut Schmidt, the former Chancellor of West Germany, will speak at the MIT's commencement ceremony in late May, MIT President Paul E. Gray, said yesterday...