Word: brandts
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Below the surface issues the contest has an emotional, ideological edge -Barzel blames Brandt's Social Democrats for "permissiveness" and points with well-rehearsed alarm at neo-Marxist members of Jusos (for Jungsozialisten), the under-35 wing of Brandt's party. The Jusos have swung so far left that the Chancellor himself recently admonished them for "polemics against the majority opinion of the party...
...enlarge C.D.U.'s traditional bloc of businessmen, white-collar workers, farmers, women and older voters by suggesting that West Germany, between radicalism and Ostpolitik, is edging much too close to socialism. Franz Josef Strauss, a florid speechmaker and political infighter, already warns darkly against what he calls Brandt's "social Communist regime...
...candidates, Brandt is the unspoken favorite of both Washington and Moscow. The U.S. had initial misgivings about Brandt's approaches to the Soviet Union, but is now committed to his Ostpolitik and would like to see him carry on. So would the Soviets and East Germans. In a gesture obviously aimed at giving the Chancellor a boost-by pointing up the benefits of détente-the East Germans last week began giving "instant" or same-day passes to West Berliners who want to visit the eastern half of the divided city...
Barzel and the Christian Democrats would obviously like to ignore Ostpolitik as an issue if they could, and Barzel has made it plain that if he wins, he would not try to reverse Brandt's foreign policy accomplishments. As if to allay any doubts, the opposition leader pledged last week that he did not intend to alter whatever is "legally in force." He even staked a claim for possible Ostpolitiking of his own. "Those in authority in Moscow, Warsaw and East Berlin," he said, "would talk to us if it were in their interest...
...election might wind up in a draw -leaving the parties right back where they started. Early polls give the Socialists from 46% to 49% of the vote, not enough for them to govern again without the Free Democrats-whose support ranges from 5% to 7%-but enough to restore Brandt's coalition to power. The polls, however, were taken before Brandt's no-confidence vote. At least 15% of the electorate is estimated to be uncommitted. Among them are some of the 2,000,000 or so 18-to 21-year-olds who in West Germany...