Word: kohl
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...campaign had been marred by smears and name-calling; the election aftermath was marked by recriminations and a few gloomy second thoughts. "We suffered a heavy defeat," acknowledged Helmut Kohl, chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.). "The results are disappointing," said Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, deputy chairman of the winning Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.). But not, clearly, to Wischnewski's boss, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Three days after the election he strode briskly to his chancellery office, and in an impatient, business-as-usual manner, presided over a meeting of his newly reappointed Cabinet as if nothing...
...bitter, dirty fight," commented Political Analyst Rudolf Wildenmann. "Unprecedented political mud-slinging," charged Christian Democratic Chairman Helmut Kohl. Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung warned that "election polemics are producing poisonous blossoms...
...French dismiss such references to prior American help as irrelevant in today's world but the West Germans do recognize that gratitude ought to be a factor. Says Helmut Kohl, chairman of West Germany's Christian Democratic Union: "We have relied on the U.S. for our protection, including Berlin's. It is only right that we now stand with the U.S., for the entire West's sake...