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...Baden-Württemberg, not only would its hopes of retaking the Bundesrat be dashed, but its preparations for next year's Germany-wide elections would be hobbled as well. "It would be a catastrophe for the cdu," said Axel Misch, a political science professor at the University of Saarland. "The implication is Merkel would have to resign, and I'm sure there would be major troubles within the party...
Another Young Wild One with a chance of succeeding Schauble is Peter Muller, 44, a former judge from the Saarland, Germany's coal belt. Unlike Wulff, Muller has a successful track record against the Social Democrats, having led his party to victory in state elections last September. But Muller joined the chorus against Kohl relatively recently, raising credibility questions...
...year ago, before revolution toppled the Communists in what used to be the German Democratic Republic, so matter-of-fact an assessment would have been unthinkable. Lafontaine, the charismatic Saarland state premier, looked like a strong challenger to Kohl, who was less respected and less popular than his party. Lafontaine, 47, appealed to younger voters as a maverick who ranged wide of the Social Democratic establishment and party orthodoxy. A pacifist, keen on environmental issues and allergic to any invocation of nationalist sentiment, he was touted as the "posthistorical politician." In his campaign, Lafontaine even shunned using the black...
...dynamic president of Yves Saint Laurent, was appointed to run the project. Five months later, he set off the biggest flap of all when he unceremoniously fired Daniel Barenboim and shelved the conductor's programming plans. By May of last year, when Chung, plucked from | the obscurity of the Saarland Radio Orchestra in West Germany, was named Barenboim's surprise successor, the new administration had little more to offer than a notion that the house would open early this year, with something, sung by somebody or other. The stage seemed set for disaster...
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...