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...WEST German citizens, we are disappointed with Harvard's choice of Chancellor Helmut Kohl as the Commencement speaker. Only three years after West German President Richard von Weizsacker gave a brilliant speech at Commencement, we will be embarassed to hear Kohl speak for Germans on such sensitive topics as reunification and Germany's relation to its past...
Kohl became chancellor in 1982 largely by default, after Kohl's main competitior, the late Franz Joseph Strauss, had discredited himself as a viable candidate following his defeat in the 1980 election. Kohl was fortunate enough to be the opposition leader when the governing socialist-liberal coalition under Helmut Schmidt crumbled...
...younger breed of breadmaker is bringing an almost fanatical dedication to baking. Many of these bakers are importing special stone-lined ovens, which cost up to $80,000, from France. Helmut Goetting, who holds a Ph.D. in geology, and Paul Fitzpatrick, a chemist, built a wood-burning stove and hired a German Backermeister for their Wood-Fire Bakery in Mountain View, Calif...
...fundamentally protectionist. A peek inside the global figures discloses that West Germany is the only E.C. country regularly racking up big trade surpluses within the Community and outside it as well. Subtract the West Germans and their world- record exports -- more than those of the Japanese, as Chancellor Helmut Kohl likes to boast -- and the E.C. would have a trade deficit of almost American dimensions...
Although not known for an engaging speaking style, the 60-year-old chancellor addressed hundreds of thousands of East Germans during the recent campaign, and many of them greeted him with chants of "Helmut! Helmut!" and "We are one people...