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...possible successor to Schauble is not young at all. Kurt Biedenkopf, prime minister of Saxony, is a white-haired 70-year-old. What Biedenkopf lacks in youth, however, he makes up with credentials: he was an early and outspoken critic of Kohl's autocratic domination of the party. While that was considered a liability with Kohl in power, Biedenkopf now stands out as the party's conscience, in much the same way Jimmy Carter appeared so attractive to an American electorate revolted by the Watergate affair...
Ever since, Kohl's guiding principle has been to preserve and enlarge his own personal power. Competitors within his own party, such as Kurt Biedenkopf, former General Secretary Heiner Geissler, and the President of the Bundestag Rita Sussmuth were either demoted or "promoted" to figurehead positions. Now, his Christian Democrats are in the lamentable state of lacking any leadership figure besides Kohl...
...coming only two months after the Christian Democrats lost control of the industrial state of Saarland for the first time in 30 years, suggested that Kohl's re-election in 1987 is by no means certain. "In only two years, the party has lost 1.7 million voters," said Kurt Biedenkopf, the Christian Democrats' co-chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia...
...clerk, in Hamburg. Shortly thereafter, Inge Goliath, 37, a secretary working for C.D.U. Foreign Policy Spokesman Werner Marx, left her office complaining of a stomach-ache-and turned up on the Communist side of the wall. The next day Christel Broszey, 31, the secretary of C.D.U. Deputy Chairman Kurt Biedenkopf, asked to leave work early for a hairdresser's appointment. She never returned, and is presumed to have fled to East Berlin...
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