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...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...
...admirers in the process as Rainer Candidus Barzel. He is almost all a politician should be: intelligent, hardworking, cool under pressure, a first-rate tactician and gifted debater. Yet Barzel suffers from a serious image problem. In voter preference polls, he badly trails the warmer and more personable Brandt, and even rates below some members of his own party. His critics have pinned on him a wide assortment of unlovely epithets: "aalglatt" (slippery as an eel), "a well-rehearsed Pharisee," "spontaneous as a robot...
...Relatively rich, traditionally conservative, proud of its 1,000-year history, Limburg (not to be confused with the province in Holland that is the home of the Limburger cheese) accurately reflects the central theme of the campaign so far: an overriding concern about inflation that has cut deeply into Brandt's lead in personal popularity. Last week TIME'S chief European correspondent William Rademaekers visited Limburg to assay the voters' mood. His report...
...loaf. I asked one supermarket customer how he would vote on Nov. 19. "I am not yet sure," he replied. "I won't tell you what party I belong to, but I will say that I'm not sure I trust Barzel. I trust Brandt, but I'm not sure about his party. If he's not careful, he could be leading us to another Weimar...
...dark comparison between the current inflationary trend and the days of Germany's post-World War I Weimar Republic, when inflation helped bring Hitler to power, was echoed several times. Said Joseph Kohlmaier, mayor of Limburg: "People here are generally pleased with the foreign policy of Willy Brandt, but there is also the feeling that the success in foreign policy has come at the expense of domestic programs. The Christian Democrats, in the minds of most people, stand for no inflation, even if it means a certain dampening of the job market...