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...Bonn's chancellery. With only three weeks remaining until West Germany's March 6 national elections, the tall, affable leader was considering some heartening news. According to a poll published in the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, Kohl's Christian Democratic Party and its ally in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union, were leading the rival Social Democrats 49% to 42%. Those figures marked a 1.5% rise in the popularity of Chancellor Kohl's conservative grouping from the previous week, and an almost identical decline for the Social Democrats. Said Kohl: "Things are now going in our direction...
...cronies into a sophisticated paramilitary back-up unit for General Banzar, who took power in La Paz in 1971. Banzar, for his part, kept the French legal authorities at bay through his hand-picked Supreme Court. Barbie and friends could frequently be seen enjoying themselves at the Taverne Bavaria in Santa Cruz, where hundreds of ex-Nazis gathered for reunions, took their uniforms out of mothballs, sang S.S. apthems and even imported prostitutes from Frankfort. The whole operation was financed though drug and arms deals. As an exile, Barbie was at the height of his power and bragged...
...branches." The party's Hamburg debacle indicates that it is in danger of falling under the 5% minimum necessary to qualify for parliamentary seats. If that happens in March, the Free Democrats will be useless to Chancellor Kohl as a coalition partner. The Christian Democrats and their allies, Bavaria's Christian Social Union, would have to win an absolute majority to stay in office...
...ultimate outcome less certain. Genscher was confronted by an outburst of opposition from left-leaning elements in his party about the wisdom of breaking with the Social Democrats. And Franz Josef Strauss, leader of the Christian Social Union, the Christian Democratic Union's sister party in Bavaria, raised his thunderous voice against the notion of merging with the Free Democrats. Insisting that "a marriage without love" was not destined to endure, Strauss issued a "nonnegotiable" demand for national elections by the end of the year. He expected that the Christian Democrats would win a majority, allowing them to rule...
...spiritually healthy postwar Germany-and falls in love with her. The Blue Angel trajectory is established: Von Bohm must discover, understand, compromise, surrender. Fassbinder has lighted this ordinary nightmare as if every boardroom, bedroom and bathroom were on the top floor of the worst little whorehouse in Bavaria: neon pinks and oranges in the toilets, navy blue seats against a sick-yellow wall, clashing as grotesquely as the local big shots do against the righteous Von Bohm. Their avarice is petty bourgeois, the stuff of small-town scandals in any country, but Fassbinder's mise en scene suggests that...