Word: jochen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...December. No such U.S. initiative is likely, though, until after the March 6 elections in West Germany. Any softening of the American stance before then, U.S. officials believe, would undercut Chancellor Helmut Kohl, a firm supporter of the new NATO deployment, in his race against Social Democrat Hans-Jochen Vogel...
...packed press conference in Bonn, Hans-Jochen Vogel, 57, Kohl's Social Democrat opponent, vowed that "there will be no automatic deployment" of the controversial missiles if he wins the March 6 election. He said that if the U.S. and the Soviet Union did not make greater efforts to produce an agreement in Geneva, it would have a significant impact on his attitude toward deployment...
...high-visibility ploys to head off NATO decisions, but none were as successful as the way Andropov has played his hand these past two months?first, with his televised speech in December, then with tantalizing but carefully hedged hints of additional concessions to visiting West German Opposition Leader Hans-Jochen Vogel earlier this month...
...search for an interim solution has been enthusiastically embraced by the Social Democrats, though the party officially favors deployment if talks break down. Says Hans-Jochen Vogel, the party's leader and candidate for Chancellor: "There has hardly ever been a negotiation in which the final result was identical to the opening position of one of the parties." He adds: "Kohl wants a mandate for deployment. I am fighting to avoid deployment." At a party convention last week, Vogel drew the loudest cheers when he called for a "constructive" U.S. reply to Soviet overtures for reciprocal arms reductions. Still...
...week enabling him to hold elections on March 6. The issue of the NATO missile deployment plan will loom large in the upcoming campaign. Kohl has come out strongly in favor of the new missiles, provided no progress is made in Geneva by the December 1983 deadline. But Hans-Jochen Vogel, who has replaced former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as the Social Democratic standardbearer, is pressing for greater American flexibility and his party is toying with a compromise that is not very different from the idea the Soviets suggested in Geneva...