Word: brandts
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...vote, beyond ending a deadlock that has turned their Bundestag into a cockpit of frustration, will amount to nothing less than a referendum on the future of the Federal Republic. It will decide whether West Germany will continue on the three-year-old course set by Chancellor Willy Brandt and his left-of-center Social Democrats-or return to the leadership of the more conservative Christian Democrats who governed West Germany for 20 years after World...
Early Vote. The election is also a highly personal contest between two strikingly different men. On the one side is Willy Brandt, 58, the popular, outgoing Chancellor, who comes over on television as "our Willy"-and a statesman besides. He set in motion a whole movement toward détente in Europe, with his innovative Ostpolitik. If the election were merely a popularity contest or a plebiscite on foreign policy, Brandt would win handily...
...trust (see box, next page). Barzel, however, has a deep-running issue: inflation. Prices are rising at the rate of 5.5% per year, a frightening spectacle to Germans who remember the disastrous inflationary days after World War I. Though there is no evidence that Barzel could do better than Brandt at controlling inflation, his party is known for heading the government that produced the Wirtschajtswunder (economic miracle) of the 1950s, a period of rapid growth and stable prices...
...dissolution of Parliament two weeks ago, the governing S.D.P.-Free Democratic Party coalition and the opposition parties were at a standoff, each holding 248 seats. The stalemate had brought West Germany's legislative process to a halt. To bring about an election, under the West German constitution, Brandt had to call for a vote of confidence in the Bundestag and deliberately lose it. Now he has the election, but he is no certain winner. The most recent public-opinion polls, taken at the start of September, showed the government parties with 50% of the vote and the opposition with...
...Germany, inflation runs at an annual rate of 5.5% and is the prime issue in the campaign for next month's federal election. The country is pulling out of a recent economic slowdown, and Chancellor Willy Brandt is eager to avoid any price controls or other restraints that might impede the recovery...