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DEIDESHEIM, West Germany--Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain failed yesterday to persuade Chancellor Helmut Kohl to drop his demand that the superpowers begin talks soon on cutting short-range nuclear missiles...
Barely three months ago, the staid political weekly Die Zeit commented that Helmut Kohl's control was so unchallenged that it would be hard to imagine Bonn without him as Chancellor. How quickly things change. Germany has a high standard of living and low inflation, but the latest polls suggest that if elections were held now, Kohl's Christian Democratic Union would be soundly trounced...
Flying into Bonn, Baker vowed to find out "exactly what the German position is" on a U.S. plan for upgrading 88 Lance nuclear missiles (range: 80 miles), most of them based in West Germany, with new longer-range weapons. That is a touchy subject for West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Modernization has become a hot-button issue in German politics, and Kohl would like to postpone modernizing the weapons until after national elections in December 1990. Already Kohl's Christian Democrats have suffered thrashings in six recent local elections, and his government might not survive an unpopular pledge to accept...
...secretary said he and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl agreed at a "very, very friendly" talk yesterday to negotiate differences over the NATO plan which would develop, produce and deploy new nuclear missiles to replace aging shorter-range rockets...
...Bonn, Chancellor Helmut Kohl did not take the setback lightly. His Christian Democrats have lost ground in six of the last eight regional elections. "It is a clear warning signal to all of us," he said. Kohl pledged to reassess policies dealing with refugees who seek asylum for economic, rather than political reasons, but warned that expulsion of foreign workers would jeopardize West Germany's standing abroad...