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...peaceful solution of the wage conflict," said Klaus Zwickel, the group's feisty chairman. "They have forced IG Metall into industrial action." Assuming the strike vote passes - at least 75% of the membership is required - work stoppages could begin as soon as May 6 in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, home to carmakers DaimlerChrysler and Porsche, and also in Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg, where many new businesses have been started in the former East Germany. The last strike by IG Metall was in 1995 and affected only workers in prosperous Bavaria for three weeks...
Another key to Samba Raro's charm is that some of De Castro's songs mix in bits of Brazilian classics. For example, the gritty Afrosamba incorporates elements of Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell's 1966 song Canto de Ossanha. "The techno admirer likes Samba Raro because of the beats," says De Castro. "The soul fan loves my songs because of my soulful guitar, and the traditional Brazilian popular-music admirer catches the influences from Jorge Ben and Wilson Simonal that I put in." Yet De Castro doesn't use the past as a crutch. His originals, such as the elegiac...
...soared from 25.1% to a projected 36%. What's clear is that only a coalition of parties will have enough votes to govern. The cdu currently rules in union with the Free Democrats, while the sdp partners with the Greens. But Schröder's followers in Baden-Württemberg have hinted they will try to form a coalition with both the Free Democrats and the Greens...
...Nazi skinheads, public support for far-right organizations is closely monitored in Germany. What's more, ballots for the Republicans are generally regarded as protest votes that would normally go to the more centrist cdu. In the 1996 election, the Republicans received 9.1% of the votes in Baden-Württemberg, but the prognosis for this year is just 5%. "I think this year the Republicans will do less well than last time," says Hajo Funke, an expert on the extreme right at the Free University of Berlin. "They're on the sidelines...
...reason is that Baden-Württemberg, whose capital is the car-making city of Stuttgart, is one of the most prosperous states in Germany, with an unemployment rate of only 5.2%, the country's lowest. The cdu's Teufel runs on this successful record, while Ute Vogt, the sdp leader, claims Teufel's 10 years as head of the state government has left him out of touch...