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...Bundeshaus stepped the Christian Democrats' candidate for Chancellor, silver-haired Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 62. "We had an eight-hour discussion of all essential questions, which led to a convergence of views," said Kiesinger. Beside him, nodding approval and sealing the agreement with a handshake, stood Willy Brandt, 52, West Berlin's mayor and the leader of the Social Democrats. Barring a last-minute hitch, the two parties this week will begin the task of forming a new government to replace the fading minority Cabinet of Ludwig Erhard...
...Social Democrats were to meet early this week to make their decision. A good many of the Social Democrats opposed the coalition, but heavy pressure from the leadership was expected to win party approval. Under the agreement, Kurt Kiesinger would become West Germany's third postwar Chancellor, Willy Brandt would be Vice Chancellor and probably Foreign Minister, and the 20 Cabinet posts would be split between the parties. Together the two parties would control a commanding 447 members of the Bundestag. The only opposition would come from the 49 members of Erich Mende's Free Democrats, who sparked...
...Bonn's Bundestag last week filed a delegation of Christian Democrats followed by a deputation from the opposition Social Democrat Party. With West Germany's political crisis entering its fourth week, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, the Christian Democrats' candidate for Chancellor, met with Socialist Leader Willy Brandt to discuss something that had never been tried before in the postwar period: a "grand coalition" between the red and the black...
...establishment of diplomatic relations with East bloc nations, all-out efforts for a detente with the Soviet Union with no prior conditions, and immediate economic grants to East Germany in order to try and ease the dreary have-not plight of that area's 17 million inhabitants. Says Brandt: "We should not be hypnotized by legalistic formulas...
...beneficiaries in the crisis were, of course, the Socialists. Party Leader Willy Brandt chose to play a cautious game. Since the national polls showed the Socialists comfortably ahead, Brandt reckoned that it would be wiser to wait until elections and take a chance on gaining power as a majority government rather than to link up now with either the Christian Democrats or the Social Democrats...