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...Helmut Kohl deserves credit for what is happening in Germany, but not quite as much as his occasionally bumptious demeanor suggests. He's in some danger of becoming the Goodyear blimp of the international diplomatic circuit, soaring above everyone from Houston to Zheleznovodsk, inflated with the self- satisfaction of a politician on a roll. He is that, of course, but he ought to be more. And less. The world is watching not because Kohl is leading his Christian Democratic Union into an election later this year but because his country is triumphing over two of the great curses of this...
Waving expansively at the snow-topped Caucasus Mountains, Mikhail Gorbachev observed with a grin that he and Chancellor Helmut Kohl were already in the foothills and wanted "to develop our relations further upward." After two days of talks, their cordiality escalated to outright chumminess. They emerged from a resort lodge in sweaters and open-necked shirts to stroll bantering through the fields and flowers of the Russian countryside. At the resort spa of Zheleznovodsk, they jubilantly announced that they had swept aside the last significant obstacles to uniting Germany by the end of the year. Yes, Gorbachev said, a unified...
...other heads of state attending the summit are: West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, French President Francois Mitterand,Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, ItalianPrime Minister Giulio Andreotti and President ofthe European Economic Community Jacques Delors...
...powerful West German trade unions, the closing law has resisted almost every effort to liberalize it. Last year Bonn managed to push through an optional extension of business hours on most Thursday nights, to 8:30 p.m. For weeks afterward, people went around saying it would cost Helmut Kohl the next national election -- and, who knows, they may be right...
...comes to major news events, young people are less interested and informed than their elders. Respondents between the ages of 18 and 29 were 20% less likely to say they had followed important news stories and 40% less likely to be able to identify a newsmaker like German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Two exceptions: they showed high interest in sports and issues that affected them directly, such as abortion...