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...Obama will depart Jerusalem before dawn on Thursday to fly to Berlin, where he will meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Federal Chancellery and with Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Foreign Ministry. Berlin is also where the only major public event of the trip is scheduled: a speech before what are expected to be tens of thousands at the Victory Tower in the Tiergarten. Campaign officials have been sensitive about the characterization of that event, insisting that it is a substantive foreign policy address, though given German enthusiasm for Obama, the atmosphere is expected to look more...
...about Waldheim's Nazi past and to let the victorious candidate of the conservative People's Party get on with his job. It was soon apparent, however, that the analgesic effects of the decisive election would not be enough to cure Austria's headache. The very next day, Socialist Chancellor Fred Sinowatz unexpectedly resigned, vowing to devote himself to rebuilding his tattered party. His replacement: Finance Minister Franz Vranitzky. By midweek three more Socialist ministers had quit their posts, among them Foreign Minister Leopold Gratz, who refused to ''direct the Austrian foreign service in the defense of President Waldheim.'' International...
...will with substance. The biggest public event will be a speech in Berlin, though the Obama campaign has yet to say whether he will give it at the historic Brandenburg Gate, near the former site of the Berlin Wall. (Campaign staffers reportedly were looking for alternate sites after Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her displeasure about the prospect of a presidential candidate speaking where Ronald Reagan in 1987 demanded, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!") Campaign officials are not even divulging which officials Obama plans to meet with, though some details have begun to leak. A diplomatic source tells TIME that...
...planned visit highlights the mix of admiration and suspicion with which Berliners view presidential pilgrimages to their city. The current source of dispute is Obama's purported desire to give a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate, the backdrop for Reagan's 1987 address. Through a spokesman, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she regards the possibility of Obama's speaking there "with a certain bewilderment ... No German politician would come up with the idea to do such a thing at the National Mall...
...GERMANY Chancellor Angela Merkel NOT ATTENDING "I never planned to participate in the opening...