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These days, many Americans would be hard pressed to name any world leader aside from, perhaps, Boris Yeltsin. Imagine the puzzlement if U.S. headline writers began invoking first names like Helmut (Kohl) or Kiichi (Miyazawa). But all through Europe, Bill and Hillary have suddenly become as familiar as other one-word American icons like Madonna, Magic and McDonald's. Is this Clinton mania merely the latest manifestation of the one eternally booming U.S. industry -- the creation of international celebrities -- or does it speak to something larger about the worldwide perception of both America and its new President-elect...
...Rudolf Seiters banned the Nationalist Front, a 130-member radical group with no apparent connection to Molln but a bent for terror, and set his sights on other right- wing extremists. Police raided 51 houses across the country in one day, uncovering caches of weapons and propaganda. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's denunciation of the murders, unlike many of his earlier comments on violence, ^ bore a note of genuine concern: "What has appeared here is an act of brutality that for every humane sensibility is incomprehensible...
...reproaches hit their mark. Explaining Bonn's rush of energy, Bundestag member Friedbert Pfluger of Kohl's Christian Democrats noted that "people realized what a devastating effect this was having in other countries. There is a loss of confidence in us, and loss of political credit, and there is an economic loss. Industry has complained massively to Bonn about the economic price we are paying." Industrialists were not alone in complaining. Declared historian Golo Mann, 83: "If I were 50, I would arm myself. Trust in the state's protection clearly no longer suffices...
EDITORIAL SERVICES: Christiana Walford (Director); Jennie Chien, Hanns Kohl, Benjamin Lightman, Beth Bencini Zarcone...
Ryan said, however, that she planned to send aletter to Chancellor Helmut Kohl "to expressshock" about recent events...