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...spies in their midst. Social Democratic Chancellor Willy Brandt never really recovered from the uproar after his close aide Gunter Guillaume was discovered spying for East Germany. The long-running Flick affair, swirling with allegations about illegal campaign chests and influence peddling, tormented the Christian Democratic government of Helmut Kohl for years. Quips one political observer in Bonn: "If Iranscam were ever replayed here, the odds are that the Germans would be more scandalized by the missing millions and the sloppy accounting than the arms transactions...
Deng Xiaoping shakes up China' s leaders. -- The Iran- Iraq war takes a bloody turn. -- Kohl is favored in West German elections...
...would have thought it possible just six months ago. Chancellor Helmut Kohl was then widely mocked as the most uninspired of politicians. But here he was last week, giving a campaign speech to a shouting, stomping, standing- room-only crowd in the city of Saarbrucken. Among his most enthusiastic supporters: hundreds of young people who waved flags and sparklers as the heavyset, bespectacled Chancellor made his way through the throng of 9,000 to the podium. After Kohl spoke, a spontaneous chorus of "Helmut! Helmut!" filled the room...
...West Germany's national election campaign drew to a close this week, the ) Chancellor's reception was ardent everywhere his helicopter touched down. Political analysts predicted that Kohl, 56, would ride his newfound popularity to a second four-year term when voters cast their ballots this Sunday. The Allensbach poll forecast that Kohl's conservative coalition of the Christian Democratic Union, the Christian Social Union and the Free Democratic Party would win 53% of the vote, compared with 36.7% for the Social Democrats and 9.5% for the environmentalist Greens...
There was something distinctly odd about Chancellor Helmut Kohl's New Year's Eve speech on the publicly owned ARD television network. For a start, Kohl said he was looking forward to tax reforms, when in fact they had been in effect for a year. And why, at the end of his ten-minute address, did Kohl wish his countrymen a "peaceful and happy...