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...equally adept at the histrionic demands of opera and the more intimate sentiments of lieder. He is in demand at the world's great opera houses, has made dozens of recordings and in his native Germany has had his own television show. Along with his colleague and rival Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, he has long been regarded as a leading German baritone of his generation, and possesses a more beautiful voice than Fischer-Dieskau. So why is Hermann Prey restless...
...Kohl came to power just over a month ago, the new Chancellor has insisted that West German ties with the U.S. would continue to be "the cornerstone of the Federal Republic's foreign policy." That continuity was symbolized by the presence in the Cabinet of Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher, the Free Democratic Party leader who served in the same post under Kohl's predecessor, Helmut Schmidt, and who has been a staunch defender of U.S. leadership in the troubled Atlantic Alliance. Indeed, soon after taking office...
...Hans-Dietrich Genscher and the Free Democratic Party pledged themselves to four more years of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government and rode his coattails to victory in 1980. Then the F.D.P. started maneuvering toward a coalition with the Christian Democrats. By violating the trust of the voters, the F.D.P. displayed a lack of character. This breach, more than any yearning for stability, has caused our political emotions to rise...
...leader had sworn in a new 17-member Cabinet, chaired his first Cabinet meeting, held a press conference and jetted off to Paris for a hastily arranged get-acquainted dinner with his most important Western European partner, French President François Mitterrand. Kohl's Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, hopped another jetliner for New York City, where he sat down for preliminary talks with U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the United Nations. The aim of all of this brisk activity was nothing less, in Kohl's words, than...
...which has tentatively promised national elections for next March 6. Kohl's new coalition is untested, and his Christian Democratic Union has not been overwhelmingly successful in recent state elections. Kohl's new junior partners, the Free Democrats, led by Schmidt's former Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, carry the stigma of having bolted from their longtime coalition with the Social Democrats. Since then they have suffered severe setbacks at the state level...