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...They hold more than 1000 city government seats and are represented in six of the country's II state countries. The latest polls predict the Greens will get 5.5 percent of the vote in a national election in March, enough to put them in the German national parliament, the Bundestag. More significantly, members have turned some of the romantic parts of their party platform into clearer, although still hazy, proposals. Three weeks ago, in a party caucus at Sindelfingen, the Greens drew up a manifesto calling for banks and factories to be converted from private to "other modes" of ownership...
...U.S.S.R. with intercontinental ballistic missiles, bombers based in the U.S. and missiles launched from nuclear submarines. These weapons constituted the U.S.'s central, or strategic, arsenal?the triad. Then one of West Germany's brightest up-and-coming defense intellectuals and politicians, Helmut Schmidt, argued strenuously in the Bundestag that America's own deterrent of last resort constituted a nuclear umbrella of "extended deterrence" for Western Europe, sheltering NATO's first lines of defense on and around the Continent...
...Free Democrats, still reeling from charges of opportunism for precipitously abandoning Schmidt last September, now enjoy the support of only 3% or 4% of the voting public. That is short of the 5% necessary to assure representation in the Bundestag. The C.D.U.-C.S.U. coalition has dropped slightly, from 51% to 49%, according to a recent poll. If the Free Democrats fail to qualify, Kohl could be forced to form a minority government. Meanwhile, the opposition is gaining on him. From a low of 30% in opinion polls last year, the Social Democrats have rebounded to 41%. The proenvironment, antimissile Green...
...election in Hesse showed that the confidence vote in the Bundestag was not justified. Although the polls predicted an absolute majority for the Christian Democrats, they won only 45% of the electorate...
...main question for Kohl is whether or not he will be allowed to lead that government for long. After ending 13 years of Social Democratic coalition rule on Oct. 1 by toppling Schmidt in a Bundestag no-confidence vote, Kohl and his center-right coalition of the Christian Democrat/Christian Social Union (C.D.U./C.S.U.) and the Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.) have all but promised to hold elections by March 6 that could toss the newcomers out of office...