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...Democrats. The Greens-Alternative List, an amalgam of leftists, environmentalists, pacifists and other radical groups, would win an unprecedented 9%. The result represented a dramatic decline for Schmidt's coalition, which had won a combined 53.8% in October 1980, vs. 44.5% for the Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union...
...from the shadow of his coalition part ner in adroitly Christian Social Union Leader Franz Josef Strauss, who adroitly outmaneuvered him to become the C.D.U./C.S.U. candidate for Chancellor in the 1980 federal elections. Supporters argue that Kohl's apparent lack of resolve in facing down the wily Bavarian is just a reflection of his desire to avoid harmful political confrontation. He has even been known to come to the aid of Schmidt when the Chancellor was under attack in the Bundestag from leftists in his own party. seem its drawbacks, Kohl's middle-of-the-road politicking...
...death in June, at 36, had all the garish contradictions of the film maker's melodramas. The police diagnosis-overdose of sleeping pills and cocaine-pointed up the standard celebrity moral of too much work, too many indulgences, too little time. For those moviegoers who had seen the Bavarian-born director at film festivals or spotted him in his own pictures, his death, impossible to imagine, became in retrospect easy to predict. Chronically scraggly and overweight, encased in dark glasses and neck-to-ankle black leather, skulkingly showboating his eminence, he looked the very model of a pestilential dandy...
...first 15 measures of the first-violin part, which Leopold had jotted down on the cover of another youthful Mozart symphony. Last year a complete set of parts in Leopold's handwriting was discovered among private papers in Bavaria and sold anonymously for an undisclosed sum to the Bavarian State Library, where the work was authenticated by Robert Minister, chief of the music collection. Says Minister: "When I recognized the handwriting of Leopold Mozart, I couldn't believe my eyes...
...while Orchestra Conductor Maxim Shostakovich, 42, and his son Dmitri, 19, a concert pianist, were on tour with the U.S.S.R. Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra in West Germany. Though Maxim Shostakovich seemed emotionally strained as he conducted a composition by his father, few if any in the audience the Bavarian city of Fürth suspected what was afoot. During a post-concert dinner party in a nearby Nuremberg hotel, the Shostakoviches eluded the Soviet functionaries guarding the exits and slipped away to the local police station. There Maxim announced their intention to stay in the West. Later he called...