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...punishable by death. If they were expelled or transferred, it was more moderate than the death penalty." The reaction from neighboring countries was swift. "Zeman's statement filled me with consternation," responded Edmund Stoiber, the conservative candidate for German Chancellor in the September elections. Stoiber is premier of Bavaria, where many Sudeten Germans settled, and his wife is from a Sudeten family. "The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans cannot be justified under any circumstances." In Austria, Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel said the Czech government should voluntarily compensate the Sudeten Germans. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban also joined the fray...
...political party, the Law and Order Offensive, and won a stunning 19.4% of the vote in municipal elections last year. Now he is taking his party to two other states in the hope that his get-tough message will resonate with Germans beyond his hometown. "If I lived in Bavaria, I'd never have taken up politics and probably would have led a calm and happy life as a judge," Schill says. "I'm a product of Hamburg because of catastrophic circumstances...
...have to give up significant parts of the conglomerate he built from scratch over more than four decades. And, should the controversy taint friends who helped him along the way, he may not be the only high-profile casualty. One of his staunchest backers is Edmund Stoiber, premier of Bavaria and the opposition candidate set to challenge Gerhard Schr?der for the German chancellorship in September...
Stoiber, who has ruled Bavaria since 1993, has some powerful credentials to use against Schröder, particularly on the economy. Unemployment in Bavaria, at 5.8%, is the lowest in Germany, and Stoiber has implemented a decidedly unconservative industrial policy that has lured many high-tech start-ups with promises of government subsidies. As a demonstration of how vulnerable the Social Democrats are on the economic front, last week Schröder said he planned to introduce short-term measures like subsidies designed to create low-paying jobs in a hurry...
...looming over the campaign is the experience of Franz Josef Strauss, the former premier of Bavaria who ran on the nationwide ticket in 1980. Like Stoiber, Strauss campaigned on his conservative record in Bavaria, but ended up alienating the northern part of the country and suffered a humiliating loss to the Social Democratic candidate, Helmut Schmidt...