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Confidence Vote. The crisis began building after last week's state elections in Baden-Württemberg, where the opposition Christian Democratic Union polled an absolute majority of 53.1% v. 37.5% for Brandt's Social Democratic Party and 8.9% for his coalition partners, the Free Democrats. Emboldened by those results, and heartened by the defection of yet another Free Democratic Deputy from the ruling coalition, the Christian Democrats decided to try to replace Brandt with their own leader, Rainer Barzel, 47, a tough and clever political infighter who affects long sideburns and flashy suits...
...Bundestag will vote on the treaties in May. Meanwhile, there is an outside chance that Brandt's coalition might win the state elections that will be held on April 23 in the traditionally conservative state of Baden-Württemberg. This election could conceivably overturn the opposition majority in the Bundesrat, or upper house, which voted down the treaties in February by 21 to 20. If the Bundesrat reverses course, a simple majority of Bundestag members present and voting, rather than an absolute majority of all 496 deputies, would suffice to pass the treaties. On the other hand...
...vote in state elections and seemed headed toward becoming West Germany's third largest party. In addition to the Schleswig-Holstein defeat, the National Democrats have lost their seats in Bavaria, Hesse and Lower Saxony. They retain only 19 delegates in two state parliaments (Baden-Württemberg and Bremen), and they have, of course, no representation in the national Bundestag. "Four years ago, success followed success," said Party Leader Adolf ("Bubi") von Thadden. "Now one failure leads to another...
...establishment, have been replaced by men of a different background. "For years, it's been good old Dean [Rusk], or Walt [Rostow] or George [Ball]," says one diplomat in London. "Now there's suddenly Heinrich Kissinger in the White House basement sweating over the Baden-Württemberg election, or names like Ehrlichman and Ziegler." One British writer saw Nixon's election as "the end of the affair...
...place to set up its new headquarters. Says Assistant General Manager Manfred Wahl: "We looked at Dusseldorf in the Ruhr and at Frankfurt, but we chose Stuttgart. Our managers prefer to stay here." That kind of intangible is often enough to tip the balance in Baden-Württemberg's favor. It makes a difference to be able to look out an office window and see green hills topped by castles instead of clouds of soot...