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...funereal pall hung over the wood-paneled conference room of the headquarters of the ruling Christian Democratic Party in Bonn. Even Chancellor Helmut Kohl's characteristic good humor had given way to a gloomy frown as he contemplated the party's surprising defeat the previous Sunday in local elections in the city-state of Hamburg. It was the last test of strength before the national elections Kohl plans to hold on March 6 in hopes of winning a mandate for his three-month-old conservative coalition government. Said the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "The result is both...
Last week's vote was especially shocking for Kohl's coalition partners in Bonn, the Free Democratic Party. Once the pivotal third force in West German politics, the Free Democrats slipped to 2.6%, from 4.9% in June, prompting Bonn's daily General-Anzeiger to compare it to "a Christmas tree with no needles on its 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...
...interest in West European capitals. In an unusual statement, the government of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher welcomed the rumors of progress, saying a Soviet offer "may be a step in the right direction." The West German Cabinet refrained from public comment on the matter, but officials in Bonn privately expressed disappointment at the U.S. Administration's outright rejection of what was seen as a Soviet trial balloon. Although French President Mitterrand went out of his way to tell Shultz that he firmly backed the U.S. negotiating stance, he has said that he thought the outcome could be somewhere...
...along just as the Reagan Administration was trying to patch up its bruised image in Western Europe. During the past year, the transatlantic dialogue has deteriorated into a shouting match over high U.S. interest rates, East-West trade and European subsidies for farm products. Thus, in his visits to Bonn, Brussels, The Hague, Rome, Paris, Madrid and London, Shultz made a special effort to ease West European fears that the Reagan Administration had little interest in fostering international economic and monetary cooperation...
...wall. Outside the office of the present Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, gardeners, mow the lawn and vacuum the leaves shed by the towering oak trees that screen the building from the Rhine near by. In an interview with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Anatole Grunwald and TIME Bonn Bureau Chief Roland Flamini last week, his first interview with a U.S. publication since taking office, Kohl spoke of his strong personal commitment to the Atlantic Alliance and of the need for a solid defense posture toward Moscow. Excerpts...