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Everywhere he went, Gorbachev and his wife Raisa were besieged by cheering and excited crowds chanting, "Gorbi! Gorbi! Gorbi!" Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who faces a tough campaign for re-election in 1990, made seven appearances with his visitor, hoping, perhaps, to absorb some of the generous warmth. Gorbachev's popularity rating among West German voters is considerably higher than Kohl's; a poll taken for the weekly Der Spiegel in early June gave Gorbachev a score of +2.2 on a scale of +5 to -5, compared with -0.6 for Kohl...
...finishing the reductions by 1992 sounds like a pipe dream. Never mind that the estimated $1 billion in potential savings doesn't measurably reduce the U.S. defense budget or redress the "burden-sharing" problem among the allies. Never mind even that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl still disagree over the alliance's nuclear future...
Many labor experts say they share the view ofUniversity of Wisconsin Chancellor Donna Shalala,who says, "There are those who believe thatuniversities can only reflect society, but Ibelieve they should be role models for society...
...Bush, along with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is convinced that rushing into missile negotiations with the Soviets before a conventional-arms pact is struck would be a mistake. But West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has been pressing for a quick start to missile talks to shore up his shaky domestic political position...
...combination of high U.S. interest rates, which make the dollar attractive to foreign investors, and the political woes of West Germany and Japan. The Japanese have yet to pick a successor to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, who announced his resignation in April over a stock scandal; in West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrat Union has lost two important local elections this year. Moreover, even though the yield on such securities as ten-year U.S. Treasury bonds has slipped from 9.2% earlier this month to 8.8% last week, it remains higher than the return on comparable securities abroad...