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...deployment in Kosovo in the summer of 1999. After a short visit to Macedonia early last week, Supreme Allied Commander General Joseph Ralston reported to the representatives of NATO's 19 member countries that the level of risk was "acceptable" for the alliance to launch the operation. The German Bundestag will meet in special session this week to sign off on its promised contingent of 500 troops, but otherwise there was surprisingly scant political fallout in the alliance's capitals...
...Turkish parents blame the German school system, which they say does not offer enough language training. School officials in turn blame parental indifference. "This is an empty debate and one that is conducted on the backs of the children," says Cem Ozdemir, 34, a Turkish-German member of the Bundestag. Ozdemir believes parents should realize "how important it is for them to promote their kids' language skills" at home. Educational authorities, he says, should draw up "intercultural curricula," organize more German and integration courses down to the kindergarten level and better prepare teachers to work with foreign-born pupils...
...fall of Kohl took on elements of a Greek tragedy, complete with reversals of fortune and fatal character flaws. It probably reached a nadir late last week, when Wolfgang Hullen, the official in charge of finance for the C.D.U.'s parliamentary faction, hanged himself at home as the Bundestag opened its investigation into the funding scandal. While the reasons for the suicide remain hazy, Hullen apparently feared being arrested for diverting some of the party's huge cash flow into his own account. But he's not likely to be the scandal's last victim. It has already touched...