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...payments and paid tax on them. "Large parts of the claims against me are false and deliberately defamatory," he said. The payments controversy was only the latest in a string of accusations against Scharping, a former leader of the Social Democratic party (SPD) who ran unsuccessfully against Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1994. Last summer, Scharping came under severe criticism when photographs were published showing him and his girlfriend cavorting in Majorca at a time when German troops were beginning a dangerous deployment in Macedonia. Scharping was also criticized for using military planes to fly back and forth to Majorca...
While more and more entrepreneurs are getting into the genetic paternity-testing business, their traditional competitors are raising doubts about the scientific quality of the work. "A DNA fingerprint that is based on a PCR examination alone is insufficient," argues Helmut Adamek, president of the official Association of Experts for Certificates of Parentage. Like legal opinions, he argues, the tests carried out by commercial labs should comprise a second procedure "to exclude analytic errors." Still, DNA fingerprints have an accuracy rate...
...Best Bar: Newton Bar, Charlotten-strasse 57, Tel. 20 61 29 99. Named after photographer Helmut Newton, whose oversize photos fill the walls. A nice mix of the young and upscale...
...extreme right-wing National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who ranks fourth, was first elected to parliament in 1956. Le Pen is trailed closely in the polls by Arlette Laguiller, a Trotskyite bank clerk on her fifth presidential run. One begins to wonder if Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Helmut Schmidt, James Callaghan and other long-retired statesmen might still be in the running if they had been French. Or whether it is time for a new revolution to bring in a Sixth Republic with a compulsory retirement age for politicians - unless they come up with new ideas...
...experience of Franz Josef Strauss, the former premier of Bavaria who ran on the nationwide ticket in 1980. Like Stoiber, Strauss campaigned on his conservative record in Bavaria, but ended up alienating the northern part of the country and suffered a humiliating loss to the Social Democratic candidate, Helmut Schmidt...