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West Germany has done very well under the Christian Democrats, and to most Germans Chancellor Kiesinger is the model of what a statesman should look like-tall, dignified and silver-haired. In a straightforward popularity contest, he would probably outpoll Socialist Leader Willy Brandt 2 to 1. But there is a sense of fatigue in the C.D.U. slogans ("SECURELY INTO THE '70s"). Resorting to one of those polysyllabic German jawbreakers, pollsters claim that the voters are displaying a higher degree of Risikobereitschaft, or willingness to take risks. Brandt's reform-minded Socialists, with their advocacy of revaluation...
Virtually everywhere they campaign, the scene is the same: Helmeted police, chanting, angry demonstrators, occasional scuffles, the din of derisive "Sieg Hell" and "Nazis out!" Not since the 1920s, when the Nazis were reaching for power, has a German political party provoked so much tumult and violence as the far-right, ultranationalist National Democratic Party. Chancellor Kiesinger, admitting that the N.P.D. is not purely neo-Nazi, describes it as "extremely harmful." Judging from the intensity of the oratory directed against the N.P.D., there are times when it sounds as if it were the party in power...
...contrast, the German middle class, and German adults generally, are more conservative in their attitude towards students than in this country. Before the war German universities were among the most highly disciplined in the world. In those days German students did nothing but study, and it is most difficult for middle aged Germans to believe that students should do anything more than that...
...pessimistic forecasters predict up to 20 per cent of the vote. A more likely estimate is between 10 and 15 per cent. Any of these would be the largest vote the NPD has garnered so far and for the first time would give them seats in the Bundestag. The German election law is complex, and it guarantees that any party with more than five per cent of the vote gets seats in the Bundestag even if it does not win an election in any single district...
...large NPD vote would thus reinforce the Coalition, at least temporarily underlining a glaring weakness in the German governmental system. Germans have no effective loyal opposition and the government they have formed, though on the surface strong, offers dissenters no alternative other than to vote for an extremist party...