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...within. Leaders of the SPD have already unleashed a strategy of "smothering the Greens" by co-opting many of the Greens' own issues, especially those concerning the environment. Indeed, weaning away moderate Greens is seen by the SPD as essential to a comeback from its 1983 defeat by Helmut Kohl's ruling coalition. Still, the Greens' worst enemies continue to be themselves. "If the Greens become a party of just young protesters," warns Werner Holzer, editor of the left-of-center Frankfurter Rundschau, "they won't stay in Bonn." For the moment, the Greens may have...
...quickest response came from West Germany. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Alois Mertes, who is close to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, rejected Kissinger's proposals, saying that "Europe cannot take on more responsibility than its power permits." NATO's military chief, he said, must be an American "because in the case of a crisis he would carry much greater weight with the [U.S.] President than any European." A U.S. commander, Mertes added, "strengthens the credibility of the alliance in Moscow as well...
...defection, said the official East German press agency, was an attempt to poison relations between the two Germanys. Officials in Bonn were equally disturbed by the attention the West German press gave the Berg incident. In an effort to avoid further embarrassing the East Germans, the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl briefly suspended any pronouncements on the matter. After spending six days in the Prague embassy, the Berg family returned late last week to East Germany. It was generally understood that they had received guarantees of an exemption from prosecution and of eventual permission to leave for the West...
Although the festivities were not attractive enough to secure an appearance by President Reagan in 1981, dignitaries including Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and former secretary of state Cyrus Vance have addressed graduating classes...
Although Reagan shares a greater ideological solarity with the conservative governments of Britain's Margaret Thatcher and West Germany's helmut Kohi-in marked constrast to the socialist regimes of France and Italy-his appeal in these countries is limited as well West Germany has expressed unease over the U.S. role in the NATO alliance and British critics have also attacked Reagan's foreign policy beyond the realm of European politics; Neil Kinnock, a leader of Britain's opposition labour Party, recently criticized Reagan's involvement in Central America and charged him with heightening Cold War confrontation with the Soviet...