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...Kurt Kiesinger finished the words that made him Germany's third postwar Chancellor, his hand was seized and pumped by Ludwig Erhard, his talented but luckless predecessor, who proclaimed last year that "the postwar era is over"?but failed to realize that his time had passed with it. Only a year after winning for himself and his party a major election victory, Erhard was unceremoniously pushed offstage in bitter political fighting that produced a five-week crisis in West Germany's government. When he left the Bundestag and took his leave of the Palais Schaumburg, where for three years...
...sealing the agreement with a handshake, stood Willy Brandt, 52, West Berlin's mayor and the leader of the Social Democrats. Barring a last-minute hitch, the two parties this week will begin the task of forming a new government to replace the fading minority Cabinet of Ludwig Erhard...
...Minister, and the 20 Cabinet posts would be split between the parties. Together the two parties would control a commanding 447 members of the Bundestag. The only opposition would come from the 49 members of Erich Mende's Free Democrats, who sparked the crisis in October by quitting Erhard's government in protest against tax increases needed to balance next year's budget...
Also active in tentative negotiations were Erich Mende's Free Democrats, who hold a slender balance of power between the two big parties in the Bundestag. It was they who precipitated the current crisis by quitting Ludwig Erhard's Cabinet over budget problems. Now they were talking separately to the Socialists and to their former CDU partners about the prospect of forming a "mini-coalition...
Kiesinger's predecessor, Ludwig Erhard, had been shunted aside unceremoniously. Lost was Erhard's own chance to rebuild the coalition government that had crumbled three weeks ago when the Free Democrats walked out in protest against his decision to raise taxes. Neither his friends nor enemies within the party wanted to leave the task of government building to the man who clearly had no future left. All that now remained for him was to carry on as a lame-duck Chancellor until some one else succeeded in forming a new coalition...