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...funereal pall hung over the wood-paneled conference room of the headquarters of the ruling Christian Democratic Party in Bonn. Even Chancellor Helmut Kohl's characteristic good humor had given way to a gloomy frown as he contemplated the party's surprising defeat the previous Sunday in local elections in the city-state of Hamburg. It was the last test of strength before the national elections Kohl plans to hold on March 6 in hopes of winning a mandate for his three-month-old conservative coalition government. Said the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "The result is both...
...mood in Europe has changed dramatically since 1979, when, in response to concerns first put forward by then West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, NATO ministers voted to deploy the new American weapons in West Germany, Britain, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands. In what became known as the "two-track decision," the ministers decided that the U.S. would simultaneously launch a round of negotiations with the Soviet Union in which the new missiles would be used as a bargaining chip to persuade the Soviets to dismantle their SS-20s. Nonetheless, many West Europeans fear that the deployment scheme will result...
Attention in Moscow and Washington is focusing on West Germany, where new Chancellor Helmut Kohl completed a complex parliamentary maneuver last week enabling him to hold elections on March 6. The issue of the NATO missile deployment plan will loom large in the upcoming campaign. Kohl has come out strongly in favor of the new missiles, provided no progress is made in Geneva by the December 1983 deadline. But Hans-Jochen Vogel, who has replaced former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as the Social Democratic standardbearer, is pressing for greater American flexibility and his party is toying with a compromise that...
...lesser players as well are perfect, each one a small, vivid miracle of type. Fetching up their names is an old game for the trivialist: Sam (Dooley Wilson), the bartender Sascha (Leonid Kinskey), the waiter Carl (S.Z. Sakall), the jilted Yvonne (Madeleine LeBeau), the Bulgarian couple (Joy Page and Helmut Dantine), the pickpocket (Curt Bois), the croupier (Marcel Dalio...
...impressed by Architect Helmut Jahn's design for the Houston tower [Nov. 8]. The only thing the proposed skyscraper lacks is King Kong swinging from its phallic spire...