Word: barzel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game of tit for tat continued right up to the last day, when Brandt held a one-hour meeting with Fellow Socialist Francois Mitterrand, Pompidou's arch rival in the current election campaign. After all, had not Pompidou seen fit to meet with Rainer Barzel, Brandt's political opponent, during his visit to the Munich Olympiad? Besides, as one Brandt aide volunteered: "We don't really believe that Mitterrand's coalition will beat the Gaullists, but in France anything can happen...
During the next four years, however, domestic policy will take the more dominant role. Christian Democratic Challenger Rainer Barzel confronted Brandt on pocketbook issues in the election largely because of Brandt's foreign policy successes. Nevertheless, Brandt, who campaigned in 1969 as a pocketbook man himself, will be forced to do something about inflation, spiraling at an annual rate of 6.4%. The Chancellor, as one U.S. State Department expert noted last week, must shift his role from that of "peace chancellor" to that of "reform chancellor" and among other things revamp tax laws originally passed a quarter-century...
...cooperate-produced an agreement with East Berlin eleven days before the vote. Just before this week's vote, Brandt promised that "if I am reelected, I will not hesitate to propose that I travel to East Berlin myself-before Christmas if possible-to sign the basic treaty." All Barzel could do was suggest that his party would renegotiate the treaty on better terms...
...Barzel spoke as if the electorate needed to be reminded daily that the inflation rate had soared in October to an annual rate of 6.4%, the highest since the Korean War. "This country is not in order," he would declare. "The accounts do not add up." Just as newspapers and television screens were filled with news of the treaty with East Germany, Barzel countered with a tactic of his own to redirect attention to the economy. On the eve of the election, Barzel and former Finance Minister Karl Schiller, who had resigned from the government last July after losing...
...tradition of leaving politics to the politicians, tens of thousands of voters devoted their time and money to the campaign. A Citizens for Brandt movement branched out into 338 groups; they canvassed and passed out campaign materials-including one door plaque that read "God protect this house/ From Barzel and Franz Josef Strauss." Only in the last few weeks of the campaign did the Christian Democrats manage to counter the Citizens for Brandt with some voter-initiative groups of their...