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...Helmut Kohl and Germany look like a good physical match: the tall, burly Chancellor casts as large a political shadow at home as his powerful country does across the European Continent. While Kohl needed a lot of help from his coalition partners to win a fourth straight four-year term last week, he was the real issue of the campaign. Some posters carried only his portrait, without bothering to mention his name or that of his Christian Democratic Party. Unfazed when popularity polls showed him trailing 11% early this year, he insisted he would still win the national election...
Well, possibly a larger majority. He and his partners from the Christian Social Union and the Free Democratic Party will control the new 672-member Bundestag by only 10 seats -- a drop of 124 from four years ago. No one has forgotten how swiftly and confidently Kohl engineered Germany's unification, but this electoral decline is about what has happened since then. It marks the price he paid for a steep post-union recession, now ending, and the resentment felt in both eastern and western Germany over the high cost of bringing them together. Even so, unified Germany stuck with...
...news. Demonstrations of continuity and stability are particularly welcomed from Germany, the colossus of Western Europe and the world's No. 3 industrial economy. Most of Germany's neighbors were at least a bit apprehensive about how the country would behave after coming triumphantly together five years ago, but Kohl's administration has reassured them. "Germany is not what it was in the past," says a French government official in Paris. German neo- Nazis have committed shocking public atrocities, but they do not presage a national trend toward extremism. An important proof: the far-right Republican Party took only...
Director: Sheldon Czapnik Editorial Services: Claude Boral (General Manager); Hanns Kohl (Photo Lab); Lany Walden McDonald (Library); Beth Bencini Zarcone (Picture Collection); Editorial Technology: Dennis Chesnel...
...Christian Democrats' skin-of-their-teeth victory gives Helmut Kohl a fourth term, but the narrow parliamentary majority threatens Kohl's ability to govern. The Christian Democrats come-from-behind victory actually saved the Chancellor's political career. "This campaign revolved around Kohl," says TIME Bonn bureau chief Bruce van Voorst. "The Christian Democrats offered not a new ideal, but Kohl as a symbol of stability and reliability. There were posters that had nothing on them but Kohl." The conservative architect of German reunification succeeded in edging out the rival Social Democrats by just 10 seats, down from a comfortable...