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...Helmut Kohl and Germany look like a good physical match: the tall, burly Chancellor casts as large a political shadow at home as his powerful country does across the European Continent. While Kohl needed a lot of help from his coalition partners to win a fourth straight four-year term last week, he was the real issue of the campaign. Some posters carried only his portrait, without bothering to mention his name or that of his Christian Democratic Party. Unfazed when popularity polls showed him trailing 11% early this year, he insisted he would still win the national election...
...move NATO's border east, embracing Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, even in the face of vehement opposition from Russia. On that score he may face Washington's displeasure too, even if Bill Clinton did say when he visited Germany last July, "I always agree with Helmut...
...best to overturn the ruling coalition before its term is over. Though his party has lost the past four elections, Social Democratic leader Rudolf Scharping calls Kohl's alliance "a coalition of losers." Kohl did not seem worried last week. "A majority is a majority," he observed. Correct, and ! Helmut Schmidt, one of Germany's most effective Chancellors, governed for six years with an identical 10-seat margin. For that matter, Konrad Adenauer became Chancellor in 1949 by a majority of only one seat. Kohl is betting that he will be on hand two years from now to celebrate overtaking...
...Christian Democrats' skin-of-their-teeth victory gives Helmut Kohl a fourth term, but the narrow parliamentary majority threatens Kohl's ability to govern. The Christian Democrats come-from-behind victory actually saved the Chancellor's political career. "This campaign revolved around Kohl," says TIME Bonn bureau chief Bruce van Voorst. "The Christian Democrats offered not a new ideal, but Kohl as a symbol of stability and reliability. There were posters that had nothing on them but Kohl." The conservative architect of German reunification succeeded in edging out the rival Social Democrats by just 10 seats, down from a comfortable...
Shifts in history aren't usually this well orchestrated, even in Germany. Last week the Allies formally ended their 49-year occupation of Berlin, withdrawing the last of their troops; Chancellor Helmut Kohl, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, British Prime Minister John Major and French President Francois Mitterrand marked the occasion by delivering heartfelt speeches about friendships forged in conflict. But even as ordinary Berliners were toasting the departing American soldiers, a few blocks away Germany's business leaders were greeting a star-studded U.S. corporate delegation eager to get the new era of peace and prosperity...