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...that time, the matter had become a farce to the public and a serious and dangerous embarrassment to Chancellor Helmut Kohl. He was already beset by an array of domestic political problems concerning; West German relations with the Soviet Union, the continuing deployment of U.S. missiles and the revival of his country's sputtering economy. He did not need the Kiessling-Wörner controversy, which one politician described as "worse than an operetta." Returning from an eight-day trip to the Middle East last week, Kohl sought to bring down the curtain by announcing that Wörner...
...Party have spearheaded huge antinuke rallies, protest marches and sit-ins. In March 1981, 80,000 demonstrators stormed a nuclear construction site north of Hamburg. Some tossed rocks and Molotov cocktails, and 15,000 helmeted police fought back with water cannons and tear gas. Undeterred by such confrontations, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government is pushing nuclear power as a way of cutting West Germany's dependence on imported fuel for 60% of its energy supplies. The country has 15 reactors in operation and twelve under construction. German nuclear plants are unusually well designed and efficient. Between...
...Israelis last week had an opportunity to express their opposition directly to one particular deal: the proposed sale by West Germany of tanks and other weaponry to Saudi Arabia. When West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl arrived in Israel for a six-day state visit, he was greeted with several demonstrations protesting not only the arms sale but also the presence of a German leader on Israeli soil...
...year's European championships, police posted 6,000 men at West Berlin's Olympic stadium. Turkish shops were given special protection after neo-Nazi groups threatened that the Kreuzberg ghetto would "go up in flames" on the day of the game. The anti-immigrant atmosphere caused Chancellor Helmut Kohl so much embarrassment that he flew in from Bonn to attend the game...
What had begun as a titillating scandal was turning into a major political embarrassment for the government of Chancel lor Helmut Kohl...