Word: kohl
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...leading man on the list is Kohl. As recently as last November he was hailed at the Brandenburg Gate as a national hero for deftly steering his country through the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; now he is demonized as a national embarrassment. The mass-circulation magazine Stern ran Kohl's photo on its cover showing the former Chancellor dappled with mud. He was lampooned on television's most popular interview show as "Helmut Kohleone," the Teutonic equivalent of the Godfather. Throughout his public humiliation, Kohl, 69, has remained defiant. Since the scandal first erupted late last year...
EZER WEIZMAN Embattled Israeli President denies gift-related charges. Must be listening to Helmut Kohl...
...Christian Wulff, 40, an attorney who is the party's deputy chairman. Wulff is telegenic and one of the leaders of the "Jungen Wilden," the Young Wild Ones, a group of up-and-coming, fortysomething local politicians in the C.D.U. Wulff was an early critic of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's, even trying to block Kohl from running for a fifth term in 1998. "The C.D.U. does not accept that anybody puts himself outside the legal system," Wulff said last week, referring to Kohl's refusal to name the source of illegal contributions to the party. A big liability...
...with a chance of succeeding Schauble is Peter Muller, 44, a former judge from the Saarland, Germany's coal belt. Unlike Wulff, Muller has a successful track record against the Social Democrats, having led his party to victory in state elections last September. But Muller joined the chorus against Kohl relatively recently, raising credibility questions...
...possible successor to Schauble is not young at all. Kurt Biedenkopf, prime minister of Saxony, is a white-haired 70-year-old. What Biedenkopf lacks in youth, however, he makes up with credentials: he was an early and outspoken critic of Kohl's autocratic domination of the party. While that was considered a liability with Kohl in power, Biedenkopf now stands out as the party's conscience, in much the same way Jimmy Carter appeared so attractive to an American electorate revolted by the Watergate affair...