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...race took on added significance from the fact that the state administration, like the federal government in Bonn, is an uneasy coalition between the Christian Democratic Union and the minority Free Democrats. As a result, the two chief rivals, Ludwig Erhard's C.D.U., running scared after 16 years in power, and Willy Brandt's Socialist Party (S.P.D.), riding high in the opinion polls, poured their heaviest artillery into the Saar...
...each featured local geography and history contests, with an identical jackpot prize of a trip to Majorca. Both parties piously agreed to hold campaign expenditures down to $75,000-and both ended up spending some $500,000. Willy Brandt came down from Berlin to campaign for two days. Chancellor Erhard topped him by spending four days there, shaking hands and sipping Saarland milk for photographers. "I view this election," he declared between glasses, "as a vote of confidence or no-confidence...
...turned out, the treaty has been marked by almost perpetual discord since its inception, and French and German views on everything from NATO and European unity to attitudes toward the Soviet Union and the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam have increasingly diverged. Last week German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard received French President Charles de Gaulle in Bonn as the treaty prescribes-but De Gaulle clearly went only to do his duty, and Erhard plainly regarded the Frenchman only as a necessary guest...
Even before he arrived, in fact, De Gaulle contrived to show his disdain for Erhard's hopes for a united Europe and slap the German's warm support for the U.S. in Viet Nam. "We do not want a supranational Europe," sniffed De Gaulle at the annual Elysée garden party for parliamentarians. "For us, that would be to want to disappear." When someone suggested that the U.S. had been formed by a kind of supranational fusion, De Gaulle delivered one of his little historical lectures. "America was virgin territory," he said. "All that was there...
With that gratuity, De Gaulle was off to Bonn the next morning. He was given a carefully correct greeting at Wahn Airport from an Erhard bolstered by his recent warm reception in Washington. But conspicuously absent were the festoons of flags and the cheering crowds that marked De Gaulle's first triumphal appearance in Bonn in 1962. Still, with national elections looming this year for them both, De Gaulle and Erhard tacitly agreed to disagree without visible image-damaging acrimony. For his part, Erhard agreed to leave open for the time being any increase in the Common Market...