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Nonetheless the results, coming only two months after the Christian Democrats lost control of the industrial state of Saarland for the first time in 30 years, suggested that Kohl's re-election in 1987 is by no means certain. "In only two years, the party has lost 1.7 million voters," said Kurt Biedenkopf, the Christian Democrats' co-chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia...
Although the Chancellor campaigned actively throughout the state, his personal popularity apparently wrought no magic. Reagan's Bitburg visit probably did not harm the Chancellor's cause, but it certainly did not help as much as Kohl had hoped. The defeat also betrayed a widespread impatience that the Chancellor's long-promised economic Wende, or turnaround, has not fully materialized; indeed, in February, national unemployment soared to a postwar high of 10.6%. To make matters worse, Kohl's protege, Bernhard Worms, was trounced in the race for North Rhine-Westphalia state leader by Incumbent Johannes Rau. With his moderate views...
...election-night television show last week, both of the main parties went on the attack. Kohl and Social Democratic Party Leader Willy Brandt, a former Chancellor, broke into a shouting match, with Kohl accusing Brandt of "primitive anti-Americanism" and Brandt calling Kohl "a liar." In the days that followed, the Bundestag crackled with heckling and mudslinging. "This," said Social Democratic Secretary-General Peter Glotz, "is the beginning of the central campaign...
...striking images are among the finest surviving examples of ancient Egyptian art. They depict the passage into the next life of a slim young woman clad in a diaphanous gown, her toenails polished white, her eyes outlined with kohl, her every need seen to by the servants and deities surrounding her. The accompanying inscriptions leave no doubt about her identity: Queen Nefertari, the favorite wife of Ramses II, Egypt's greatest pharaoh...
...They hope too that if they become partners in the research, they will gain a voice in Washington's decisions on whether to deploy a Star Wars defense and how to treat SDI in negotiations with the Soviets. Says Horst Teltschik, senior security adviser to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl: "Maybe in joining SDI we can enhance our own influence...