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...Bonn, Duarte lunched with a fellow Christian Democrat, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and a $17.8 million foreign-aid program was signed. In Paris, Duarte met with French President François Mitterrand, whose government recognizes El Salvador's Marxist-led guerrillas as a "representative political force." Afterward, Duarte announced that the French embassy in El Salvador will reopen after being closed for five years. Said Duarte: "French policy has not changed. The situation in El Salvador has changed, especially after my election...
...clocks in Bonn stood at 15 minutes to midnight when Economics Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff appeared at the office of Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week to tender his resignation. The outspoken Lambsdorff, 57, who had spent nearly seven years in the key Cabinet post, is expected soon to be formally charged by the Bonn public prosecutor's office with accepting $50,000 on behalf of the Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.) from the Flick Holding Co. in exchange for allowing the firm generous tax writeoffs. Lambsdorff, who will retain his seat in the Bundestag, insisted on his innocence. "The charges...
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had more reason than most of his colleagues to be satisfied with the outcome of the election. With 46%, his ruling Christian Democrats lost only 3.2 percentage points compared with their showing in last year's national elections. For a party in power, that was an exceptional performance, especially when compared with that of the opposition Social Democrats, who dropped 3.4% from last year despite a campaign appeal to "send the government a reminder." But Kohl and his ministers had little cause to celebrate: the Free Democratic Party, the small but pivotal junior partner...
Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who was 14 in 1944, had earlier denied reports that he officially sought to be included in the Normandy gathering. According to his aides, however, he had indicated to French President Francois Mitterrand last February that in the spirit of reconciliation, he would not mind being present. Mitterrand shrugged off the hint, and Kohl swallowed the rejection. Said Kohl last week: "The German Chancellor has no reason to celebrate when others celebrate a victory in battle that cost 10,000 German soldiers their lives." Neither Bonn nor the West German public took much comfort from a French...
...that the London summit will resolve these disputes are slim. The previous economic summits have concentrated on building a spirit of cooperation and have rarely achieved specific agreements on complicated financial matters. Looking back on the eight economic summits he attended as West German Chancellor, Kohl's predecessor, Helmut Schmidt, once reflected that the meetings were valuable not so much for what they accomplished as for what they avoided. He had in mind primarily resistance to curbs on free trade. Still, political harmony and economic discord are not an enduring combination-a point which the London gathering may well...