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Once challenged, and once convinced, this nation has been able to do just about anything it has wanted to do. It may decide, after further consideration, that Ronald Reagan has come up with a bum idea. But it should not rebuff his vision out of timidity...
Kohl intends to re-establish the coalition government that he created nearly six months ago, after the Free Democrats fled their partnership with Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Kohl's first order of business last week was to rebuff Franz Josef Strauss, 67, the brilliant but abrasively ambitious leader of Kohl's Bavarian-based sister party. In a "harmonious" 90-minute meeting at the Christian Democratic headquarters in Bonn, Strauss appeared to expect that the Free Democrats would be shunted aside in the coalition hierarchy and that he, and not Genscher, would be granted the dual posts...
...time when the U.S. is trying so hard to keep the nervous West Europeans from reneging on their commitment to accept the Pershing IIs and cruise missiles. The U.S. does not need the MX in Dense Pack. But it does not need to have the world see a spectacular rebuff of the Executive Branch by the Congress either...
...results of the balloting, however, promise to give recurring headaches to Figueiredo and his conservative Social Democratic Party (P.D.S.). In the process of choosing thousands of city councilors, mayors, state assemblymen, federal congressmen, senators and state governors, the voters delivered an unmistakable rebuff to the military-sponsored authoritarian regime. At week's end, results were still trickling in from the balloting exercise, in which voters in Brazil's remote Amazonian hinterlands were forced to travel by truck, airplane or even dugout canoe in order to register their electoral preference...
...last week's rebuff to the National Party cast doubt on Botha's ability to win support for his plan from many white Afrikaners. With more than 600 industries, including the world's largest gold refinery, Germiston (pop. 216,123) generally reflects the sentiments of the conservative industrial workers and farmers who have formed the backbone of the National Party. Said the pro-government Johannesburg Citizen: "The battle for Afrikanerdom is on with a vengeance, and the politics of South Africa will not be the same again...