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...optimism last week as he and senior election strategists huddled over breakfast in Bonn's chancellery. With only three weeks remaining until West Germany's March 6 national elections, the tall, affable leader was considering some heartening news. According to a poll published in the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, Kohl's Christian Democratic Party and its ally in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union, were leading the rival Social Democrats 49% to 42%. Those figures marked a 1.5% rise in the popularity of Chancellor Kohl's conservative grouping from the previous week, and an almost identical decline...
With that kind of attitude, it is not surprising that Czechs have been unsympathetic, even hostile, to the aspirations of the Solidarity trade union in neighboring Poland. The Czechs have resented the fact that their goods, including food and oil, were apparently being shipped across the bor der to relieve shortages...
Born in Nuremberg, Jahn studied architecture in Munich and came to this country in 1966 to do postgraduate work at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the citadel of Mies van der Rohe's bare and square architectural puritanism. Jahn joined the firm of C.F. Murphy in 1967 and became its chief designer in 1973. The firm changed its name to Murphy/Jahn eight years later...
...Department of the interior placed the timber wolf on ts endangered species list. But un der pressure from Minnesota authorities, the department downgraded the wolfs status to a threatened species, allowing eradication of so-called problem wolves, like the pair that strolled into a mining company lunchroom in the town of Babbitt last year...
...stations where a range of goods and services is on sale. Texaco's familiar star is given new prominence by being displayed in white on a red circle against a black background. The company's black, white and red service stations have a clean, nononsense, Mies van der Rohe look. The only adornments are deadpan signs reminding customers to turn off their engines, check the oil and, with gas sales dropping because of fuel-efficient engines, urging them to get a car wash, snacks or cigarettes. To date, 94 new Texaco stations have been built and more than...