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...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...
According to the Byerly Hall grapevine, Kohl is not the only illustrious member of the incoming freshman class. But don't sit on the edge of your seat until September wondering who your other famous classmates are. When you get here, you'll probably find that you're sharing a bathroom with them...
...tall, ruddy-cheeked West German and the pale, intense Frenchman stood outside the monastery church at Birnau, overlooking Lake Constance, near the West German-Swiss border. A Cistercian monk uttered words of welcome. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl lifted his arms to the skies, clear after a daylong rain, and smiled: "Thank you, Prior, for we have been praying all day for the weather to improve." The quip brought a laugh from Kohl's companion, French President Francois Mitterrand...
Neither side could deny what Mitterrand called their "evident divergence" on Star Wars. French officials claimed to be pleased by West German pledges not to join the U.S. program until Bonn's specific demands are met -- despite Kohl's personal endorsement of the scheme last month. Mitterrand had previously rejected the Reagan proposal on strategic and political grounds. The French appreciated Kohl's remarks on the necessity of West European technological cooperation, particularly his support for a French-sponsored project to create an agency to pool efforts in space-age laser and particle- beam research...
...meeting also failed to clear up what Paris regards as serious contradictions in other West German positions. Kohl, for example, has accepted President Reagan's request to set an early date for a new round of global trade-liberalization talks. Mitterrand has balked, arguing that such negotiations would invite U.S. attacks on West European farm policies and high agricultural tariffs. Finally, the French decry West Germany's refusal, at European Community agricultural-policy negotiations in Brussels three weeks ago, to accept cereal-price reductions that would hurt West German grain farmers...