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West Berlin's elections were held two years early because a scandal over municipal building contracts forced the resignation of S.P.D. Mayor Dietrich Stobbe last January. To halt the decline of the S.P.D. in its onetime bastion, Schmidt had sent his federal justice minister, Hans-Jochen Vogel, 55, to take over as mayor and prepare for new elections. A popular former mayor of Munich widely regarded as Schmidt's heir apparent, Vogel made an impressive effort. He stopped officials from forcibly evicting squatters and stumped the city, pumping hands, urging restraint, promising reform. A pre-election poll...
...unified Alliance get-tough policy made credible by defense spending. The day before he left Washington, Haig won Reagan's agreement, despite resistance from some hardliners. Soon after he arrived in Rome he met with the key advocate of renewed arms control, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and displayed a five-page handwritten letter from Reagan to Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev. In it Reagan communicated his horror of war, his hopes for peace and his willingness this year to move a step toward resuming SALT by negotiating controls of European continental-range missiles. Haig later mentioned...
...into dangerous foreign adventurism. Reuters simplified this by quoting him as saying that Soviet leaders would have to choose between changing their Communist system in the direction followed by the West or "going to war." Pipes also was reported to have expressed concerns about West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher's upcoming trip to Moscow...
First the Planning Board and then the State must approve the plans, Paul Dietrich, a representative of the project architect, said yesterday, explaining that the state owns parcel lb, which was once scheduled for the site of the Kennedy Library...
...Social Democrats' divisions were not confined to the Bundestag. After an attempted Cabinet reshuffle following a local construction scandal, rebel party members last month forced the resignation of West Berlin Mayor Dietrich Stobbe. Riot police in Hamburg chased thousands of demonstrators who had been marching in protest against a proposed new nuclear power plant 70 miles away at Brokdorf. The government-backed project was dealt a substantial blow when Hamburg Mayor Hans-Ulrich Klose, a prominent S.P.D. member, threw his support to the antinuke environmentalists...