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...though they were by a debate that had droned on for more than five hours, members of West Germany's parliament watched closely as Bundestag President Richard Stücklen rose to make a curt announcement: the opposition motion of no confidence in the minority government of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had carried by a vote of 256 to 235, with four abstentions. While colleagues began congratulating Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl, the Christian Democratic Party chairman grinned broadly as he acknowledged the results of the ballot. Said Kohl: "Mr. President, I accept the vote...
...parliamentary ploy bears the sinister label of Königsmord (murder of a king), but the intent is entirely bloodless. As soon as Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's ruling coalition crumbled two weeks ago, Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl pressed ahead with his plan to become West Germany's first Christian Democratic Chancellor in 13 years. Rebuffing Schmidt's call for elections, Kohl prepared to introduce a rarely used vote of no confidence in the Bundestag to bring down Schmidt's minority government immediately. If his strategy works, Kohl will move into the modern glass-and-steel Chancellery...
...Western alliance will feel the loss of a statesman as experienced as Schmidt. Said former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey last week: "Helmut Schmidt is the only Western leader at the moment who has experience, a policy and imagination. He will leave a very serious gap." Still, Schmidt's departure should not weaken the bonds between London and Bonn. Though Schmidt and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher enjoyed good personal relations, Britain's Conservative Party is ideologically closer to West Germany's Christian Democrats. The opposite will be true for France. During his summer holidays...
...Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor, West Germans may notice be shift in political substance soon enough, but the change in style will be immediate. Towering (6 ft. 4 in.), bespectacled and multijowled, Kohl has a folksy manner that contrasts sharply with the coolly autocratic air of the donnish Schmidt. Unlike the Chancellor, who is a first-rate orator in both German and English, Kohl has an unfortunate tendency, as one journalist put it, to use "ten sentences when one will do." And if Schmidt is ill at ease among crowds, Kohl likes nothing better than to press...
...C.D.U. governments, he has tactfully one them all down, not wanting to become too identified with any one Chancellor. Despite frequent trips abroad, he is virtually unknown outside his own country. When Kohl visited Washington last October, West German journalists gleefully pointed out wire-service reports identifying him as Helmut "Cole...