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...shift opens the way for a compromise with Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats, who still feel the SPD has not gone far enough to stanch the flow of refugees from the east, 500,000 of whom are expected this year alone...
...Lustgarten to rally for goodwill. But in full view of world media, the demonstration turned into an ugly spectacle of egg-splatting, paint-bombing counterprotest -- staged not by the neo-Nazi right, whose xenophobia prompted the march in the first place, but by some 400 left-wing anarchists. Chancellor Helmut Kohl was forced to abandon the procession shortly after beginning it. More enduring was the image of Germany's distinguished President, Richard von Weizsacker, his coat splotched by eggs, wanly shouting a message of peace from behind a thicket of police riot shields...
...antiforeign assaults mounted, Bonn remained paralyzed by a debate over whether constitutional changes were the solution. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Union insisted that an amendment to curtail the right of asylum was the only way to stop racial violence. After much internal strife, the opposition Social Democrats seem ready to agree. But a belated victory for Kohl will not erase suspicions that his government has been more concerned with political gain and bolstering its own appeal to a right-leaning electorate than with law-and-order measures to end the strife in the streets...
...also moved to reopen negotiations with Washington. France's partners forced E.C. Commission President Jacques Delors to reinstate Ray MacSharry, the Community's principal agricultural negotiator, who had resigned after accusing Delors of undermining his efforts. British Prime Minister John Major insisted on a deal, and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl called the prospect of a trade war "politics of idiocy." Mitterrand conceded that the isolation of France would be "very dangerous." But France has support from Italy, Spain and Belgium. A compromise is foreseeable, but not readily. (See related story on page...
With the formation in 1966 of a grand coalition between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, Brandt came back as West Germany's Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister. Three years later, he tried again for the chancellorship and won. By then, his view of East and West had been tempered by his belief that President John F. Kennedy had abandoned West Berlin in 1961 when East Germany erected the Wall. "Kennedy has cooked our goose!" an angry Brandt told friends. He decided that the fate of the two Germanys would be decided by Germans and that the key lay in improving...