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...Bonn, Chancellor Helmut Kohl did not take the setback lightly. His Christian Democrats have lost ground in six of the last eight regional elections. "It is a clear warning signal to all of us," he said. Kohl pledged to reassess policies dealing with refugees who seek asylum for economic, rather than political reasons, but warned that expulsion of foreign workers would jeopardize West Germany's standing abroad...
...leaders. But last week the Bundestag convened in an unaccustomed turmoil of accusation and recrimination over West Germany's role in building Libya's suspected chemical-weapons plant at Rabta. Members shouted angry questions at a government spokesman, to the visible discomfort of a dour and silent Chancellor Helmut Kohl. "Once again our history has caught up with us," said Norbert Gansel, arms-control spokesman for the opposition Social Democratic Party, referring to the country's Nazi heritage. "Once again the evil, blinkered German is there in the cartoons and the editorials, and the federal government has made an ugly...
These are steps in the right direction. But it is likely that the country's colleges will be plagued by prejudice as long as students, complacent in their insensitivity and ignorance, feel that parents, politicians and even professors find such attitudes acceptable. Observes Joseph Duffey, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the scene of several racial incidents: "Our campuses are a testing ground for some of the resentments young people sense are out there in society...
...quite 180 degrees, but it was close enough -- and sudden enough -- to qualify as a mighty abrupt about-face. After first insisting that his government could find nothing to substantiate U.S. charges that West German companies helped the Libyans build a chemical-weapons factory in the desert outside Tripoli, Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week admitted that Washington might, after all, know what it was talking about. He changed his mind, Kohl said, after the government examined "certain documents" that had been "seized in the past few days." As prosecutors opened a criminal investigation of the West German firm Imhausen-Chemie...
...Read my nose," declared NBC News commentator John Chancellor last November, decrying the foul atmosphere of the fall campaign. READ MY LICKS, headlined the Los Angeles Times in a story about the menu for an Inaugural reception this month. Christian Science Monitor reviewer John Beaufort could not resist pointing out the "thousand points of incandescent light" in the lavish Broadway musical Legs Diamond. Last week USA Today ran a story about the pre-Inaugural cleanup of Washington. The headline: A THOUSAND POINTS OF GLEAM...