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Moving the date, complained Oskar Lafontaine, the Social Democratic opposition's candidate for Chancellor, was a "deceptive maneuver." His party made it clear that it would block the two-thirds vote necessary to speed up elections. At that, the government dropped the plan. Although the Social Democrats support an early date for unification, they want balloting to come later...
...East German analysts suggest that the SPD does not want to lose its standing as the leading opposition to the Party of Democratic Socialism, the newly retooled communist organization, which took a surprising 16% of last week's vote. Others suggest that the Social Democrats' reluctance is inspired by Oskar Lafontaine, the SPD candidate who will confront Kohl in West Germany's national elections this December. Lafontaine may fear that by joining a grand coalition, his sister party in the East would be seen as a handmaiden of CDU policies...
That question will demand an answer in December if Kohl loses the West German election to the SPD. Some Social Democrats see little utility in NATO and believe that most of the voters share their view. The most likely SPD candidate for Chancellor, Saarland governor Oskar Lafontaine, says flatly, "Kohl is wrong if he thinks Germany can stay in NATO." Lafontaine favors a European defense system in a "United States of Europe." That kind of talk shocks Washington, and the Bush Administration has decided to put its weight behind Kohl and his commitment to the Atlantic Alliance. Even in Washington...
...Jakes regime's death warrant. This week East Germany's Communist Party chief Egon Krenz will be in Prague for a visit with Jakes. Sources in Berlin intimate that Krenz will try to persuade the Czechoslovak leader to drop his hard line. The trip, said East German Foreign Minister Oskar Fischer, may just have a "stimulating effect...
...self-education was wide but shallow. Vienna was peopled with brilliant artists and thinkers; Sigmund Freud's researches, Arnold Schoenberg's music, Oskar Kokoschka's paintings, Arthur Schnitzler's plays, all had their roots in the city. But Hitler dismissed modern art as "decadent." To the impotent and solitary figure, power was what mattered, not aesthetics. The Ring of the Nibelung proved more fascinating for the drama than for the music. "Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany," Hitler often said, "must know Wagner." Particularly the heroic, irrational world of blood and fire...