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...newspaper headline cried out: FATHER MURDER. Some of Germany's most experienced, cynical politicians broke down and wept. Helmut Kohl, who as Chancellor from 1982 to 1998 unified Germany, was forced to resign as honorary chairman of the opposition Christian Democratic Union, his reputation soiled by a spreading financial scandal. In the end the statesman who counted Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev among his peers was brought down by the likes of a French wheeler-dealer nicknamed Dede the Sardine...
...country through the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; now he is demonized as a national embarrassment. The mass-circulation magazine Stern ran Kohl's photo on its cover showing the former Chancellor dappled with mud. He was lampooned on television's most popular interview show as "Helmut Kohleone," the Teutonic equivalent of the Godfather. Throughout his public humiliation, Kohl, 69, has remained defiant. Since the scandal first erupted late last year, he has steadily refused to name the sources of at least $1.2 million in unreported campaign contributions made to the C.D.U. during his tenure as Chancellor...
EZER WEIZMAN Embattled Israeli President denies gift-related charges. Must be listening to Helmut Kohl...
Think of it as Germany's Watergate: a nation stripped of its political innocence by revelations of rampant malfeasance in the corridors of power. Former chancellor Helmut Kohl resigned as honorary chairman of Christian Democratic Union Tuesday, after refusing the party leadership's request that he reveal the identities of a number of secret political donors from whom he received illegal campaign contributions from 1989 to 1996. So far only one of those donors has stepped forward, an arms dealer based in Canada. "The country has been electrified by revelations that Kohl blithely disregarded the stringent campaign finance laws passed...
...Duchess of York. Weight-reduction programs seem to use only female spokescelebrities, although it presumably wouldn't be that difficult to find a male who is famous, out of work, in need of a little slimming and known for yielding to temptation now and then even in nonalimentary matters. Helmut Kohl comes to mind. In the "before" shots, Chancellor Kohl could be shown in one of those pig-outs he used to have with Bill Clinton--both of them up to their elbows in sausage and mashed potatoes. Instead of running on Oprah, of course, the male-spokesperson commercials would...