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Even before the election campaign began, however, Kohl's rosy political prospects started to fade. First, a wave of sympathy began to build for the defeated Schmidt, whose term of office ended when the small, centrist Free Democratic Party deserted his coalition to join Kohl's conservative alignment. Then Kohl faced a voter backlash for the way he arranged the election call, by stage-managing a vote of confidence against himself in the Bundestag. That maneuver has been contested by four Bundestag members before West Germany's Constitutional Court...
When conservative West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl wrested power from the Social Democratic-led coalition of Helmut Schmidt more than three months ago, he took pains to emphasize his commitment to NATO's missile deployment plans. So did Kohl's new partner, the centrist Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.), which had been instrumental in causing the collapse of the Schmidt government by forming a new partnership with Kohl's Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (C.S.U.). Now, just five weeks before West Germans go to the polls in national elections on March...
...center-right governments. France's President François Mitterrand and Greece's Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou swept to power last year on a wave of popular enthusiasm for promises of change, and Felipe González has now joined that socialist surge. Even in Italy, where centrist Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini still leads a shaky five-party coalition, the Socialists under Bettino Craxi have made steady gains in the polls and are poised to offer an alternative to the two major parties, the Christian Democrats and the Communists...
...country, the militants have alienated many of Labor's more traditional blue-collar supporters and spurred deep ideological splits within the party. Labor's standing in the polls has slumped to a 15-year low and a number of popular party figures have defected to the centrist Social Democratic Party formed last year...
Though the liberal wing of the U.S. Catholic Church has repeatedly sought to take the U.S. Catholic hierarchy leftward into the new morality, this is the first time that a church panel within any U.S. diocese has gone so far as to accept homosexual behavior. Not surprisingly, many centrist and conservative Catholics in the archdiocese were alarmed not only by the contents of the report but by the fact that it was issued at all. Said Conservative Jesuit Joseph Fessio, director of the St. Ignatius Institute at the University of San Francisco: "If the Catholic Church has a view...