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...threatened to camp in the middle of the floor until their seats were changed. In the end, they got what they wanted: a central strip of 27 seats between the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats. Then came the new session's opening speech, given by former Chancellor Willy Brandt. A Bundestag tradition, such speeches are strictly ceremonial. Greens' Deputy Eckard Stratmann broke protocol, however, by demanding equal time, claiming that "the extraparliamentary movement has been given a new voice." He was roundly rejected...
...thesis attacking the Marshall Plan, Kelly moved in 1972 to Brussels and a job at European Community headquarters that taught her, she says, about women's rights and nuclear arms. That same year, lured by what she called the "utopian hope" of former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Kelly joined the Social Democratic Party, only to storm out in 1979 convinced that Brandt's successor, Helmut Schmidt, had betrayed the party's beliefs. Thereafter she joined the Greens, instantly becoming one of the party's brightest spokesmen and strategists...
Actually if one looks back, "turning points" seem to abound in the past half century of German history. From the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 to the initiation of Chancellor; Brandt's Ostpolitik in 1970. Germans have time and again confronted radical shifts and new beginnings in national policies...
...addition, blatant Soviet encouragement of the Social Democrats certainly injured that party and its claim to represent independent German interests. Only the fact that the Soviets have meddled and miscalculated in other elections in other countries can explain such foolhardy blindness. Big losers here may be former Chancellor Brandt and armaments expert Egon Bahr, both exponents of a soft-left, nationalist Social Democracy...
...Kohl, 52, shaking hands and exchanging greetings with some of the 6,000 supporters in attendance. From the podium, Kohl catalogued a variety of traditional conservative remedies for the social and economic ills of West Germany that arose, he said, during the rule of his Social Democratic predecessors, Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt. The Chancellor's voice rose to a shout as he reaffirmed a decision to deploy U.S.-built Pershing II and cruise missiles in the country if Geneva arms-limitation talks between the U.S. and the Soviet Union fail to achieve progress by December...