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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...
...calculated to convey the impression of an issue-oriented thinker. His major campaign issue will likely be inflation, which is running at 5.45% so far this year. Now Barzel's attack has been immensely strengthened by Schiller. A brilliant economist but always a prickly political bedfellow, Schiller was Brandt's "election locomotive" in 1969. Now he is steaming at the Chancellor from the opposite direction...
...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...