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...issues the confrontation presented, however, were absolutely basic. Would German workers accept the government's call to continue making sacrifices in order to help westernize eastern Germany? The answer so far is no. The public workers' union demanded a 9.5% wage increase while the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl argued that anything over 4.8%, or just enough to cover the inflation rate, would damage the economy. Last week the government was forced to offer 5.4%. The union leadership accepted, and chairwoman Monika Wulf-Mathies called it "a political victory." Minister of Special Tasks Rudolf Seiters, the government's chief negotiator...
...deny that the governing coalition, shaken by the economy's troubles and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher's resignation, was in any danger. The opposition Social Democrats accused the government of "stupidity and provocation." They now top Kohl's Christian Democrats in the polls and are calling for the Chancellor's resignation. "The coalition is stable," Kohl insisted last week. (See related story on page...
...taste of civic disorder, when garbage collectors, transport workers and other public employees walked off their jobs in the longest and most acrimonious strike since the end of World War II. Streets stank, planes didn't fly, traffic snarled. In the end the workers prevailed, forcing the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl to surrender to a 5.4% pay raise. It was less than the unions wanted but more than Kohl felt Germany could afford...
...unions put much trust in Kohl's words. In 1990, campaigning for election as the Chancellor of one Germany, he promised "blossoming landscapes" in the east by 1994 and insisted that "nobody will be worse off after unification." But two years later the landscape is not blooming, and recovery of the east is likely to take 10 years at least. Kohl said there would be no new taxes, but the government enacted stiff "unity surcharges" on income taxes last year. He promised to control inflation, the economic hobgoblin of postwar Germany, yet it is running higher than 4%. Last week...
...that he would leave office on May 17, the 18th anniversary of his ascent to the job -- but he offered no compelling explanation. There was no mention of health problems, although he has a history of coronary trouble and tuberculosis. He did not hint at a falling-out with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, although over the years they have had many disagreements. And he disavowed interest in another high-profile post, although rumors are rife that he longs to cap his political career with the German presidency. Some analysts reasoned that Genscher, Germany's most popular and peripatetic politician, knew...