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...Robin Schmidt, Harvard's vice president for government and community affairs, said yesterday. "We're still hopeful that he'll be our Commencement speaker." Schmidt said that Harvard's only direct word from Walesa so far is a March 5 letter that states, in Polish, his acceptance of Harvard's invitation...
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...
...taught her, she says, about women's rights and nuclear arms. That same year, lured by what she called the "utopian hope" of former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Kelly joined the Social Democratic Party, only to storm out in 1979 convinced that Brandt's successor, Helmut Schmidt, had betrayed the party's beliefs. Thereafter she joined the Greens, instantly becoming one of the party's brightest spokesmen and strategists...
...power as Chancellor was assured by the survival of the Free Democrats, who once again resumed their role as the balance of power in West German politics. Kohl's risky gamble in holding national elections six months after the collapse of the coalition, led by Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt, had paid off. Despite the existence of a widespread and vocal peace and protest movement, spearheaded by the Greens, Kohl had always maintained that there was a "silent majority" in the country in favor of his pro-NATO, free-enterprise policies...
Kohl's victory banished the specter of political uncertainty that culminated in the no-confidence parliamentary vote last October that ousted Schmidt and ended 13 years of Social Democratic rule. Schmidt's downfall was triggered when the Free Democrats, led by his Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, bolted the government coalition and joined Kohl's Christian Democrats. The Free Democrats' motive: disagreement with the Social Democrats over how to reverse the nation's declining economic fortunes. Branded as "traitors," by the SPD, the Free Democrats began a downward slide in public esteem...