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...tangled web of espionage might have made for amusing reading had it emerged from the pages of a spy novel. Instead it leaped from the headlines of West German newspapers last week, as the country's most serious spy scandal in more than a decade grew even wider. Chancellor Helmut Kohl found the revelations anything but amusing. In an effort to limit the damage, Kohl last week dismissed Heribert Hellenbroich, 48, chief of the Federal Intelligence Service...
Trying to limit the damage, the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl notified NATO allies of the security breach, while the Interior Ministry began an investigation. So far, politicians have refrained from blaming Kohl, and his government does not appear to be in immediate political danger. Gerhard Jahn, a member of parliament from the opposition Social Democratic Party, deplored the defection but added that he believed the government "doesn't want to hide anything...
...member of the Class of '89 whose journey to Cambridge will take a little longer is Walter Kohl '89, who will fly in from Bonn, West Germany. Kohl, the son of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, could not be reached to discuss his future Harvard career...
...Rolf Mengele told it in the Bunte story, the first time he met his father was on a skiing vacation in Switzerland in 1956, when the twelve-year-old boy stayed at a mountain hotel with an affable uncle called Helmut Gregor. Three years later, said Rolf, he discovered that "Uncle Helmut" was actually his father. As the two began to correspond, Rolf told Bunte, the fugitive showed himself to be paternal but far from penitent. "I can never hope that you will understand or sympathize with the course of my life," he wrote Rolf. "But I have...
...otherwise dour and downbeat Franco-West German summit meeting between the two leaders. Five hours of discussion had failed to dissipate a growing malaise between Paris and Bonn, much less restore the intimate Franco-German relationship that flourished under ex- President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The current differences, over trade talks and agricultural prices, seem certain to hinder progress toward greater West European unity. More important, on the prickly issue of Star Wars and Ronald Reagan's invitation to West Europeans to join in the U.S.'s Strategic Defense Initiative research program, the best that...