Word: hanse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Like Ronald Reagan, he is a folksy, conservative politician with an easygoing, leisurely work style. But last week, West Germany's newly chosen Chancellor Helmut Kohl, 52, was behaving like a man without a moment to lose. Within three hours of taking over the glass-and-steel Bonn Chancellery...
Moscow had snooped in Swedish waters before. In October 1981, a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine ran aground near a naval base at Karlskrona. Ten days later, after a humiliating interrogation of the ship's captain, the indignant Swedes hauled the sub out to sea. Last June, the Swedish navy...
Last week's momentous Bundestag vote grew out of weeks of virtual paralysis and political infighting between the country's major parties following the Sept. 17 breakup of Helmut Schmidt's ruling center-left coalition. It marked the first time in West Germany's postwar history...
But the staid predictability of Bonn politics quickly took on the intrigue of a Florentine court last week. Initially, Kohl was confident that former Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, leader of the centrist Free Democrats who bolted Schmidt's government, could deliver at least 33 votes from his party...