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WHEN ONE OF THEIR most respected legislators, former general Gert Bastian, withdrew from West Germany's Green Party last Thursday, the young party came one step closer to failure as a viable political institution. More disturbing than Bastian's departure in itself, however, are the issues that prompted his resignation: increasingly heated internal power struggles and a gradual reformation of party priorities...
...Though Bastian may actually have had other reasons for resigning, his critique of the party struck several valid notes. The Greens of the Bundestag have not yet had the benefit of being in-vigorated by success; consequently, it is not altogether surprising that they have turned much of their energy in-ward...
George F. Balas Bastian...
...impact on national policy. The two groups are at odds over how to deal with potential violence in the peace movement. After 134 peace activists were arrested in Krefeld last June for attacking U.S. Vice President Bush's car with stones and paint bombs, Green Deputy Gert Bastian, a former general in the West German army, chastised the offenders as "provocateurs, not part of the peace movement at all." Other Greens insisted that the party must remain open to all kinds of dissidents...
...Chuck Bastian Gaines...