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...Chancellor could receive a majority in the elections set for next March 6. Citing poor health, Schmidt announced last week that he would not run again for Chancellor, a move that increased Kohl's chances of confirmation in the job. (Late last week the Social Democrats chose Hans-Jochen Vogel to be their candidate for Chancellor.) Another reason undoubtedly was the realization that voter disenchantment with the Social Democrats over their handling of the economy spelled almost certain defeat in the elections...
Speaking in a 25-person seminar at the Center for European Studies. Hans-Jochen Vogel, a leading member of West Germany's Social Democratic Party, said the Reagan administration "had not yet clarified a foreign policy" and that "they control." West Germany would support the United States until Reagan "forces other countries to move in any direction," he added...
Even within the system that they profess to despise, the youngsters have their sympathizers. Says Hans-Jochen Vogel, 55, the former S.P.D. mayor of West Berlin whose lenient approach to local housing squatters did nothing to endear him to already disenchanted voters in last May's local election: "There is definitely a youth protest that has spread all over. The real problem is understanding the motivation behind the movement. I see a lack of credibility among the young toward politicians and all things political, a feeling that too much of their life is administered for them...
West Berlin's elections were held two years early because a scandal over municipal building contracts forced the resignation of S.P.D. Mayor Dietrich Stobbe last January. To halt the decline of the S.P.D. in its onetime bastion, Schmidt had sent his federal justice minister, Hans-Jochen Vogel, 55, to take over as mayor and prepare for new elections. A popular former mayor of Munich widely regarded as Schmidt's heir apparent, Vogel made an impressive effort. He stopped officials from forcibly evicting squatters and stumped the city, pumping hands, urging restraint, promising reform. A pre-election poll...
...Jochen Brecht Hamburg, West Germany