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...every day that the wife of a government leader is viewed as a sex object. So when Germans opened the January Penthouse, they must have been surprised to see a caricature of a scantily clad Hannelore Kohl, wife of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, in the magazine's "Top 100 Beauties." The Kohls have sued Penthouse and stopped any further printing of the cartoon...
...Western powers for any kind of intervention, preferably military. Faced with an impossible task, however, Washington, European capitals, NATO and the U.N. could do nothing but rescue their own. "If we send soldiers, what are we going to give them for a mission?" wondered German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Virtually alone, Austrian former Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, an envoy for the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, tried to come up with some international relief. He met with the new Albanian Prime Minister, Bashkim Fino, on Friday, then went to the southern port of Vlora to talk with rebel leaders...
...Germany for displaying a swastika or denying the Holocaust. And most Germans, 70% of whom tell pollsters they think the church should be banned, consider Scientology a subversive organization. "The federal government," says Peter Hausmann, its spokesman in Bonn, "will continue to combat Scientology with all legal means." Kohl snapped that those who signed the letter "don't know a thing about Germany and don't want to know...
...increasingly popular Communist Party, the biggest concern for G-7 leaders was showing support for Yeltsin and his reform policies. "All the pomp and ceremony of being seen with world leaders has to have some impact on voters," Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly says. "Standing near people like German Chancellor Kohl and President Clinton touches the Russian idea that they are still a great nation, which is hard to see in day-to-day life." Although Yeltsin easily won public backing from European and Japanese leaders, President Clinton tip-toed around the election issue as much as possible. "Clinton handled...
...early 1993 a CIA team marched into the offices of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and spread out before his aides their satellite photos and intelligence reports on Tarhunah. The analysts had identified a key part in the boring machines: the large bits at the front, which would quickly wear out as they cut a hole six yards high and eight yards wide into the mountain. These had to be constantly replaced. Stop the supply of spare bits, the CIA men told Kohl's advisers, and the boring machines would soon become useless. Embarrassed by revelations in 1988 that German companies...