Word: kohl
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DEIDESHEIM, West Germany--Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain failed yesterday to persuade Chancellor Helmut Kohl to drop his demand that the superpowers begin talks soon on cutting short-range nuclear missiles...
...still have quite a lot of work to do," Kohl told reporters during a news conference with Thatcher after an afternoon of talks...
Barely three months ago, the staid political weekly Die Zeit commented that Helmut Kohl's control was so unchallenged that it would be hard to imagine Bonn without him as Chancellor. How quickly things change. Germany has a high standard of living and low inflation, but the latest polls suggest that if elections were held now, Kohl's Christian Democratic Union would be soundly trounced...
...Kohl tried to halt the popularity slide by reshuffling his Cabinet last week, but the move only underscored his political weakness. Among those ousted was disruptive Defense Minister Rupert Scholz. Recent controversies concerning West German involvement in Libya's suspected chemical-weapons plant, local political scandals and resentment over unpopular tax and health-care reforms don't fully explain the public disenchantment that first showed up earlier this year in municipal elections. "I believe there is a kind of gambler's attitude in parts of the electorate," says Otto Lambsdorff, chairman of the centrist Free Democratic Party. "They are saying...
Flying into Bonn, Baker vowed to find out "exactly what the German position is" on a U.S. plan for upgrading 88 Lance nuclear missiles (range: 80 miles), most of them based in West Germany, with new longer-range weapons. That is a touchy subject for West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Modernization has become a hot-button issue in German politics, and Kohl would like to postpone modernizing the weapons until after national elections in December 1990. Already Kohl's Christian Democrats have suffered thrashings in six recent local elections, and his government might not survive an unpopular pledge to accept...