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...packed press conference in Bonn, Hans-Jochen Vogel, 57, Kohl's Social Democrat opponent, vowed that "there will be no automatic deployment" of the controversial missiles if he wins the March 6 election. He said that if the U.S. and the Soviet Union did not make greater efforts to produce an agreement in Geneva, it would have a significant impact on his attitude toward deployment...
Arthur Burns, the U.S. Ambassador to Bonn, is fond of complaining to West Germans that by neglecting to teach the history of the past 40 years-West German schoolbooks have tended to skip lightly over the Hitler and immediate postwar periods-the country has produced a generation with little or no historical perspective. In the eyes of West German youth who cannot remember the cold war or the Berlin airlift or the Korean War, there is really not much to distinguish between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As a result, the vital Atlantic Alliance is sometimes questioned or even...
Helmut Kohl, 52, was suffused with optimism last week as he and senior election strategists huddled over breakfast in 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...
...French government did everything it could to ensure that Barbie was hustled out of Latin America without incident. The Elysée dispatched a presidential DC-8 jet to Cayenne to fly him back to France. West Germany had also sought Barbie's extradition, but the Bonn government decided to let the French have him. Cynics were quick to point out that the Mitterrand government's dogged effort to bring the Nazi to trial could only win votes for the Socialists in the French municipal elections set for next month...
...Soviet Union. West Germany's more than 48,000-member Communist Party has had an influence on the peace movement disproportionate to its size. During a meeting held in Bad Godesberg last April to plan a protest rally scheduled to coincide with President Reagan's visit to Bonn two months later, leaders of the Protestant and environmental groups that had been at the forefront of the peace movement were repeatedly shouted down by an audience packed with Communists and fellow-travelers...